Michael Douglas Quotes
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Players never die - they just try their luck at another table.
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I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.
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I dont know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mean how long is that going to last?
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My brain cannot conceive how old my body is.
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It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation.
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With little knowledge of what it meant to be a Jew, I found myself passionately defending the Jewish people. Now, half a century later, I have to defend my son. Anti-Semitism, I've seen, is like a disease that goes dormant, flaring up with the next political trigger.
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We must unite to make nuclear weapons a horror of the past.
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The hardest thing about sex scenes is that everybody is a judge. I don't know the last time you murdered somebody or blew anyone's brains out, but everyone has had sex and probably this morning, which means everyone has an opinion on how it should be done.
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Someone reminded me I once said, 'Greed is good.' Now it seems it's legal.
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One of the things that I find most incredible about dad is the third act of his life.After all he accomplished in his professional career and what he's given for his country, at the point in his life where he's faced adversity, losing a son, having a helicopter crash, having a stroke, and what he's accomplished in this third act in his life, I find quite extraordinary.
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Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.
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It's a phenomenon that I see with young actors - a lot of American speaking parts going to British actors.
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Human Rights for everyone is the necessary foundation upon which all of us may build a world where everybody may live in peace and serenity and plenty.
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When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.
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Out there is nothing but possibilities.
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That's why I'm such a big sports fan, with sports you can never guess what's gonna happen. Most movies you get halfway through and you can kind of guess the ending.
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I've gotten burnt the last few years on a couple of little independent films where you get paid nothing, you work your ass off, there's no marketing budget except you going on every talk show. But you're seeing it all over. I mean, these disasters at NBC, with the morning show.
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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.
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I went into rehab to save my marriage, but I wound up saving myself.
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I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different.
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Even when you're acting with a producing hat, when you're in every scene, you're really conscious of trying to make everybody as good as they are, because ultimately you're trying to make the best movie possible.
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Never knew how poor I was until I started making money.
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Oh, I get it, it's simple. PG means the hero gets the girl, 15 means that the villain gets the girl, and 18 means everybody gets the girl.
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I am a Jew. Those are four words of pride. My Jewishness is as deep as my genes.