Michael Douglas Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Michael Douglas
I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be. — Michael Douglas
I do think of myself as a bit of a loner, a bit of an independent. I'm one of those people who, when they're sick, like to curl up and remove myself. I don't like a lot of people around. There is nothing you can do to help. — Michael Douglas
I have nothing against her, and in fact I'm very fond of my first wife. But we should have ended that marriage eight or 10 years earlier. — Michael Douglas
I've taken blame about being a bad father - if being a bad father is working your butt off trying to create a career at one time. — Michael Douglas
I don't know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mean how long is that going to last? — Michael Douglas
If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe? — Michael Douglas
I don't know if likeable, pleasant characters have enough conflict for me to want to do them. I admire those people, but I've never been that kind of screen presence who can do nothing. I need to do something. — Michael Douglas
Since Catherine [Zeta-Jones] and I got together, I've cut back dramatically. My priorities changed, and I still love acting and all that, but not as much as I love watching my two kids grow up. — Michael Douglas
I was there the night John Lennon was shot, three blocks away. It left a lasting impression on me. — Michael Douglas
To me, Bermuda is a real family spot. — Michael Douglas
It's a phenomenon that I see with young actors - a lot of American speaking parts going to British actors. — Michael Douglas
Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than the person that's closest to us. And you just gotta remember not to take for granted that person that's closest to you. — Michael Douglas
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. — Michael Douglas
There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life. — Michael Douglas
The so-called 'last golden age,' in the 1970s, most of those movies were independent films. — Michael Douglas
Directors have so much else to do besides tell actors what to do. There are so many issues and problems. — Michael Douglas
Players never die - they just try their luck at another table. — Michael Douglas
Cancer didn't bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet. — Michael Douglas
Serious is when they tell you, 'You've got cancer.' Cancer is serious, but then the rest of it is not. — Michael Douglas
I guess there are some women who like older men, but it's a smaller group. — Michael Douglas
In 'Wall Street,' Charlie Sheen carried that movie. — Michael Douglas
You have to make entertaining movies. But like a good meal, it's nice to have a little food for thought after you walk out of the theater rather than just wiling away a couple of hours. — Michael Douglas
Like my father, like most actors, I was a pretty ambitious guy. — Michael Douglas
I'm an optimistic guy. — Michael Douglas
Greed is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed will save the U.S.A.! — Michael Douglas
Paul Rudd is ripped. — Michael Douglas
Actors, I have to say, most of the time, they elevate things; they don't screw things up most of the time. — Michael Douglas
For an actor, it's great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them. — Michael Douglas
I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while. — Michael Douglas
My own parents divorced when I was six. I was raised with my brother Joel by our mother on the East Coast, visiting my father in Los Angeles during holidays. When your parents are divorced, you don't know anything else, do you? — Michael Douglas
When I look at myself as a younger actor, I see what a tight ass I was. I had a pretty big shadow because of my father and the comparisons. I was self-conscious about that. Now I realize there was nothing to be worried about. — Michael Douglas
I've always worked hard and played hard, and I'm sure I'll be cleaning up my act in the future. — Michael Douglas
Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes. — Michael Douglas
'Five Easy Pieces,' 'Easy Rider' - those are indie pictures; those were not studio pictures. They had relationships with studio distribution, but they were indies. — Michael Douglas
I try not to dwell too much on a bad marriage. — Michael Douglas
The arts are a celebration of life. — Michael Douglas
Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow. — Michael Douglas
Everybody knows about Las Vegas. It's a state of mind. Some people want to come with their kids and have a great weekend. Some people want to shop. Some people want to find hookers. Some people want to eat. Some people just want to gamble. It's a potpourri of decadence. — Michael Douglas
I don't ever do those kind of epic, huge, green-screen movies. — Michael Douglas
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. — Michael Douglas
Lunch? You gotta be kidding. Lunch is for wimps. — Michael Douglas
I love kids, and I love having had this second chance to have a family. — Michael Douglas
I've never been one to carefully calculate my career decisions, to sit on the outside looking in. I go with my passion and what moves me. — Michael Douglas
I've just kind of been used to carrying movies. I look back and I'm just used to being in every single scene in a lot of pictures. — Michael Douglas
My dad was a movie star. Having that name was good and bad. People think it's a silver spoon. It's not. — Michael Douglas
I've always liked Tina Turner. — Michael Douglas
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. — Michael Douglas
I think sometimes in relationships, ladies like having a man who takes care of them, nurtures them. If you can't find it in a man your own age, you find it in somebody who is older. — Michael Douglas
I come from a tough stock. — Michael Douglas
Women are now very comfortable to have babies into their late 30s. You can be a father in your 50s. I'm not saying it's for everybody, and I think people have to get their own life secure before they take on the responsibility of a partner and children. — Michael Douglas
When I was working on pictures with my father, there were a couple leading ladies to whom I wish I'd expressed how I felt rather than being too cool or too shy. — Michael Douglas
I don't smile a lot in my pictures. I'm always so ... grim. — Michael Douglas
My memories of Las Vegas were all with my father when I was, like, a teenager. He was best friends with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, and we'd come up and see the shows and go backstage afterwards and have dinner together. It was one of my first educations about stars and how they really are back stage. — Michael Douglas
I have hardly ever worked with the same director twice. But when you have worked with a director before, you understand his behavior. — Michael Douglas
'Wall Street' was a very important movie for me in terms of my career. I won an Oscar, and then the film 'Fatal Attraction' came right after it. — Michael Douglas
I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different. — Michael Douglas
I've been dying to do a Marvel picture for so long. — Michael Douglas
Of course it's important to make mistakes, as long as you grow from them. — Michael Douglas
I tell my kids they are going to live to over 100. — Michael Douglas
Cancer has shown me what family is. It showed me a love that I never knew really existed. — Michael Douglas
Liberace was a lovely guy. — Michael Douglas
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. — Michael Douglas
Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that's nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it's ignored, it withers. — Michael Douglas
People are goofy about the movie business, so you end up counting on friends you knew before you were successful. It is harder to make new friends because you are a little more cautious. — Michael Douglas
I believe there is a spirit within us, which we nurture based upon our efforts and what we bring to the world. But it doesn't come from the outside; it comes from the inside. — Michael Douglas
The Cold War's end pushed disarmament down most leaders' agendas. It's a sophisticated issue, which I think is one reason why it is not so hands-on to many people. It's not visceral. It's not like a starving child. — Michael Douglas
When you are a celebrity, nothing remains secret for very long. — Michael Douglas
I grew up on the East Coast and was going to go to an Ivy League School, but at the last minute I decided to be a hippy. It was the protest movements on the war, peace movements were going on at our university. It was a fantastic time. — Michael Douglas
Do you know what absolute happiness is? For me, it is to wake up my kids in the morning - these little pieces of innocence - to wake them and find they're so happy to see me! It is unequivocal love, no question about it. — Michael Douglas
It's important to save your money. We need it for the long haul but too many Americans don't save and don't invest. It used to be that people would be proud of the fact that they were middle class. You'd have your church and buy a house and you had a car and everything else. Now, it's really, really tough. Everybody has financial issues except for the one percent. — Michael Douglas
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. — Michael Douglas
'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' which my father had tried to get made for six, seven years, and I for four, was turned down by every studio. Every studio in the world had passed on it. — Michael Douglas
Cigar smoking by it's very nature is much more reflective than interactive. — Michael Douglas
Basketball is great; no one in Europe seems to believe just how close the spectators can sit to the players. — Michael Douglas
The people who work in Wall Street still look up to Gordon Gekko. He's sort of a guru. — Michael Douglas
I met Michael Milken for the first time with Oliver Stone at the Drexel Burnham offices in Los Angeles. — Michael Douglas
When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move. — Michael Douglas
The message from national security experts and citizens around the world is clear: The only way to eliminate the global nuclear danger is to eliminate all nuclear weapons. — Michael Douglas
Capitalism is part of our system, but it's not for the faint of heart. — Michael Douglas
I enjoy provocative things that are questionable. — Michael Douglas
Control is what gives you privacy. — Michael Douglas
Early on, someone had told me, 'You know, the camera can always tell when you're lying.' And, Jesus, that intimidated me. 'The camera can always tell? How am I going to do this?' Until one day I thought, 'Wait a minute, acting is lying. Acting is all about lying.' — Michael Douglas
I was undeclared. I was in my third year of school. They said you have to decide upon a major, and my father was an actor. My mother was an actress. So, I thought theater might be the way to go. — Michael Douglas
My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and their marriage didn't last very long. — Michael Douglas
In the movie 'Wall Street' I play Gordon Gekko, a greedy corporate executive who cheated to profit while innocent investors lost their savings. The movie was fiction, but the problem is real. — Michael Douglas
Out there is nothing but possibilities. — Michael Douglas
I don't think tongue cancer is the best cancer for an actor. — Michael Douglas
'King of California' was just, I thought, a really great, fresh, original kind of script. I loved the tone, the mix of tragedy, comedy, and drama, and that it was a good part. — Michael Douglas
For a long time, I can't say I was one who really enjoyed acting. I was always censoring it, or editing it, or analyzing it, rather than just going with it. — Michael Douglas
Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain. — Michael Douglas
My father did 90-plus films. He was Spartacus! — Michael Douglas
Retiring gives the impression that you're relieved that your job is over. — Michael Douglas
It's difficult for me to meet women because my crowd is much older. I know that for some of the young women I do meet, a relationship with me can be envisioned as a benefit to their career. — Michael Douglas
My mother is Bermudan, so I had a lot of memories when I was a kid, used to go down to Bermuda a lot. — Michael Douglas
It took me too long to realise that if you go to a marriage counsellor to resolve problems, it's in his interest to keep the marriage going. — Michael Douglas