Michael Douglas Quotes
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I don't even know why, but my entire career is contemporary films. Entire career! There's no period movies - there's one - but there's no period movies, no special effects movies. I just do character studies and so, some of them are gonna bump into each other, but I love the challenge, with a good script. I love the challenge of playing not a very pleasant or attractive character that seduces an audience or wins an audience over by the end.
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We must unite to make nuclear weapons a horror of the past.
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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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It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation.
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Players never die - they just try their luck at another table.
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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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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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Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.
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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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Someone reminded me I once said, 'Greed is good.' Now it seems it's legal.
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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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It's a phenomenon that I see with young actors - a lot of American speaking parts going to British actors.
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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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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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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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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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Never knew how poor I was until I started making money.
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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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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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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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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.