Michael Douglas Quotes
Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
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Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyone's going 'Hey!' and the next they're going 'Who?'. You certainly don't need people knowing your private business, especially if you want to come out with your head still attached.
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With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.
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One of the hardest things to do in acting is to stop thinking about yourself and stop being self-conscious.
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I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
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As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.
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The Russians are not as addicted to coffee as the Americans. We should work on that!
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It is a little bit humiliating when I have to say that Chou En-lai to me appears as the most superior brain I have so far met in the field of foreign politics... so much more dangerous than you imagine because he is so much better a man than you have ever admitted.
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The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
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Think of every character as a main character. They believe they're the main characters in their stories. No one should just be an obstacle.
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What really kills me—it really rips me up—is when people think I’m abrasive, inconsiderate or ungrateful because I don’t go outside in a bikini and wave to the paparazzi. Come on!
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DCI Horner's advice to Jack Spratt: "Remember, m'boy," his old boss had said, eyes twinkling, "that if anyone tries to get the better of you, stand up straight and say to yourself in an imperious air, 'I am the new Mrs. de Winter now!' You'll find it works wonders.
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Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
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You're using such different muscles and you rely on physicality in live action, but in animation, you totally throw that out the window. But somehow, they're both as satisfying.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
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I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.
