Michael Douglas Movie Quotes

#1. Don Quixote was a song for a 1969 Michael Douglas movie called Hail Hero! I wrote the title song for the film and they also used the Don Quixote one I had submitted.

Gordon Lightfoot

#2. 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

#3. If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.

Marilyn Monroe

#4. I think that our form of government is certainly the best - not that can be imagined - but that has ever been experienced; and, while we are sure that practice is in its favour, it would be most absurd to dream of destroying it on theory.

Charlotte Turner Smith

#5. 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

#6. A new survey found that 12 percent of parents punish their kids by banning social networking sites. The other 88 percent punish their kids by joining social networking sites.

Jimmy Fallon

#7. In 'Wall Street,' Charlie Sheen carried that movie.

Michael Douglas

#8. 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.

Michael Douglas

#9. When I come home, I'm just Maisie, and everywhere I go, I'm just Maisie!

Maisie Williams

#10. 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.

Michael Douglas

#11. '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

#12. You just have to know what your responsibility is to the movie, and live up to that, and be considerate of the other actors in the scene ... I have never been competitive in that way - I always want my leading ladies to be as good as they possibly can be.

Michael Douglas

#13. If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#14. 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

#15. Donald, I'm not sure if you're even aware of this, but the only difference between you and Michael Douglas from the movie, Wall Street, is that no one's going to be sad when you get cancer.

Anthony Jeselnik

#16. Two things distinguish nonviolent actions from violent actions. First, you don't see an enemy and second, your intention is not to make the other side suffer.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#17. The Libertarian Party holds that same-sex marriages are an individual issue and that the government has no right to determine with whom a person should have a relationship.

Michael Badnarik

#18. Foxes was a movie that didn't do a lot of business but it didn't do too badly critically and eventually they offered me other things. The interesting thing was that next I tried a film called Star Man, which Michael Douglas was producing.

Adrian Lyne

#19. I find myself unable to let go of the sense that human beings are somehow special, and that moment-to-moment human experience contains a certain unquantifiable essence. I still suspect there is something too quirky, too paradoxical, or too interpersonal to be imitated or re-created by machine life.

Douglas Rushkoff

#20. 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

#21. One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.

Marcel Proust

#22. Sometimes those fears creep into the back of your head, but then you slap yourself and think, 'Oh, woe is me! People actually like me.' What a silly thing to worry about. This is a huge opportunity, and I'm excited.

Ben McKenzie