Michael Douglas Quotes
For an actor, its great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them.
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I saw a picture of Elvis in blue lame, and thought that if I could recreate that suit and walk down the King's Road in it, someone might pick me up and take me off on a crazy adventure.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much.
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There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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Career had a lot to do with 80 percent of my breakups. It's very tough to date a struggling musician. The idea of it is enticing and fun and mysterious. But the reality is long hours and hard work. I have a lot of respect for the women I've dated.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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Christina Ricci is amazing, the most professional actor I think I've ever met. You can be chatting with her and when they call action, she's right there.
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Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater.
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When I walk down the street, even here in the U.S., they are always saying my catchphrases of my characters, and they shout at me with my catchphrases.
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Other than Green Day, we haven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades.
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Washington is a city that coddles up to and worships power.
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For an actor, its great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them.
