Michael Douglas Quotes
A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.
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I've had every hair style imaginable.
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They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.
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Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.
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I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
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You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
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We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.
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In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.
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I actually have a movie that I was a supporting role in that I'm really proud of called 'Sun Dogs.'
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When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push them to a place that isn't pleasant. I always think: 'Is it worth doing for the sake of the movie?' But I have to remember the bigger picture.
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I found out that if you made people laugh, they like you. Most people got to like me because I made them laugh. When they didn't, I hit them.
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Connecticut would not be Connecticut if we cut $3.5 billion out of the budget. We are a strong, generous, hopeful people. We'd be taking $800 million out of education. You can't do that in this state.
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A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies.
