Michael Douglas Quotes
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For an actor, its great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them.
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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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Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.
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It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation.
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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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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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Players never die - they just try their luck at another table.
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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 thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.
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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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Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.
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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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It's a phenomenon that I see with young actors - a lot of American speaking parts going to British actors.
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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 went into rehab to save my marriage, but I wound up saving myself.
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Never knew how poor I was until I started making money.
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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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I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different.
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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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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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I'm not a big filmophile. I don't watch movies a lot for a hobby. I spend all my time watching sporting events. Because, opposed to movies, you can never tell how they're going to end.
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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.