Michael Douglas Quotes

Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.

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• Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Blood
  • Vampire
  • Imperialism

• The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.

  

  Irving Thalberg
  • People
  • Art
  • Movie

• A woman - even if she is the primary breadwinner - really needs to keep in mind that at some point, she may have a diminished earning capacity because of the fact that she will bear children. Of course, this is case by case. I had two kids, and it didn't really slow me down at all.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Mind
  • Children
  • May

• I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Good
  • Love
  • Bad

• I always wanted to be a mom.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Mom
  • Always
  • Wanted

• I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Feel
  • Fearless

• Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Why
  • Want
  • Powerful

• Everything happens for a reason - I'm a believer of that for sure.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Reason
  • Everything
  • Sure

• I really do believe there are things passed down. Behaviour, not just DNA. Psychological make-up. You can see it in dogs. If you want to breed a calm dog, don't get two fighters.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Dog

• Many adult book authors supplement their income by teaching at the college level. Full-time professors fare well, but pay for adjunct professors is notoriously shabby. Children's book authors have a sweeter deal. We're invited by schools, libraries, law firms, and Fortune 500 companies to share our best writing tips and strategies.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Children

• Temerity is not always successful.

  

  Livy

• I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.

  

  Janis Karpinski
  • Attention

• Romance is quite an overblown word. This idea of chocolates and champagne and that's it. There's more to love than that. Romance is quite a soppy word. Love is much more important.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Important
  • Champagne

• The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • Star

• I am almost famous in China, because I have that Broadway cachet.

  

  David Henry Hwang
  • Famous

• I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.

  

  Bjork
  • Hand
  • Hunting

• My first fear was about the devil, when I was around fire, something I saw in a movie. I think it's about pain, in whichever form it comes.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Movie
  • Fear
  • Pain

• Ghost stories always creep me out and weird me out. Those are always interesting to watch.

  

  Jessica Szohr
  • Interesting
  • Weird

• Unlike my mother, who was unashamedly delighted when I decided to become an actor, I always feel that my father, had he lived longer, might have been a touch disapproving of some of my career - I think he might have tutted a bit at 'Men Behaving Badly.'

  

  Martin Clunes
  • Men
  • Mother
  • Father

• Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Truth
  • Fear
  • Die

• Time takes her toll and the memory fades but his glory is broken, in the magic that he made. Reality is ruined; it's the freeing from the fear The drama is distorted, to what they want to hear Swimming in their sorrow, in the twisting of a tear As they wait for a new thrill parade.

  

  Phil Ochs
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Fear

• I spend a lot of time outlining before I write the first word.

  

  John Grisham
  • Time

• Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.

  

  Michael Douglas
  • Fear
  • Actresses
  • Revel