Michael Douglas Quotes
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We must unite to make nuclear weapons a horror of the past.
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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
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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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Players never die - they just try their luck at another table.
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It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation.
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In this whole digital age, where everything is so exposed, rather than trying to keep something private, you try to get out ahead of the curve and limit the amount of gossip.
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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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Someone reminded me I once said, 'Greed is good.' Now it seems it's legal.
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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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It's a phenomenon that I see with young actors - a lot of American speaking parts going to British actors.
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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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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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Never knew how poor I was until I started making money.
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Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.
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My entire career is contemporary based, not by choice, but just by character. So, all the movies I've done, except for one in 40 years, are contemporary. But I never did an effects movie. So, I'm also a producer and I was really curious about how this whole thing went together.
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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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Suddenly you've worked yourself up to the top of the pecking order and you say to yourself, okay, this is going to be fun.
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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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I went into rehab to save my marriage, but I wound up saving myself.
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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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Basketball is great; no one in Europe seems to believe just how close the spectators can sit to the players.
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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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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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Every empire eventually falls.