Top 100 Michael Douglas Quotes
#1. Here I am sitting in the back of a cab with Catherine Zeta-Jones who is telling me Michael Douglas has fond memories of me - it just makes me feel good as a human being.
John Schneider
#2. I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast.
Oliver Stone
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. I do think I'm lucky I met Michael. Not just Michael Douglas the actor and producer with two Oscars on the shelf, but Michael Douglas, the love of my life. I really do think it was meant to happen.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
#7. I saw a specialist who asked me 'Are you familiar with the phrase faecal impaction?'. I said I think I saw that one with Glenn Close and Michael Douglas.
Bob Monkhouse
#8. On 'Ant-Man', I took a rubber stamp from the office of Hank Pym, who's played by Michael Douglas.
Evangeline Lilly
#9. I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen.
Kevin Costner
#13. 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
#15. Never knew how poor I was until I started making money.
Michael Douglas
#16. I don't smile a lot in my pictures. I'm always so ... grim.
Michael Douglas
#17. There is something about seeing rhinos and lions running free that excites you. It's not that you feel afraid; it's more like you're liberated by seeing them.
Michael Douglas
#18. Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.
Michael Douglas
#21. I remember little things that break my heart. We were coming out of Michael's house one day, and he noticed my shoelaces were undone. He bent down and tied them. I almost cried. To me, it was such a gesture of love.
Kirk Douglas
#22. Retiring gives the impression that you're relieved that your job is over.
Michael Douglas
#23. I'm not a vampire" he snapped.
"Well, you drink blood to live and you have retractable fangs just like your wings. I'd say that makes you a vampire." I thought for a moment. "Or a Venezuelan fruit bat."
Michael was not amused.
Kristina Douglas
#24. Someone reminded me I once said, 'Greed is good.' Now it seems it's legal.
Michael Douglas
#25. I am a Jew. Those are four words of pride. My Jewishness is as deep as my genes.
Michael Douglas
#26. Greed is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed will save the U.S.A.!
Michael Douglas
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. I don't think tongue cancer is the best cancer for an actor.
Michael Douglas
#31. I met Michael Milken for the first time with Oliver Stone at the Drexel Burnham offices in Los Angeles.
Michael Douglas
#32. The studios basically, besides developing some material, their strength is distribution. Distribution in any other business is a cost that you incur. You know, in a trucking business, you eat it. In a film business, distribution is a profit center.
Michael Douglas
#33. For an actor, it's great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them.
Michael Douglas
#34. '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
#35. Our economy is increasingly dependent on the success and integrity of the financial markets.
Michael Douglas
#36. I love kids, and I love having had this second chance to have a family.
Michael Douglas
#37. And from Michael - as well as Damon, Will, and Kai - I learned to breathe fire. I learned to walk as if the path were carved for me and me alone, and to treat the world as if it should know I was coming.
Penelope Douglas
#39. My marriage and my families come certainly before my career.
Michael Douglas
#40. 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
#41. Directing talent is very nebulous. You know, it's not in front of you like an actor's performance.
Michael Douglas
#42. I think the quality of television, given the amount of time you have, how short you have, is proportionally so much better than most movies.
Michael Douglas
#43. '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
#44. 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
#45. Cancer didn't bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet.
Michael Douglas
#46. 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
#47. We must unite to make nuclear weapons a horror of the past.
Michael Douglas
#48. 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.
Michael Douglas
#49. Cigar smoking by it's very nature is much more reflective than interactive.
Michael Douglas
#50. The one thing that men and women have in common - they both like the company of men.
Michael Douglas
#51. Serious is when they tell you, 'You've got cancer.' Cancer is serious, but then the rest of it is not.
Michael Douglas
#52. There has never been a period in American history when it made sense to be anti-government. We may not like certain elected officials, laws, or government programs; but government simply provides the framework with which the people provide order and necessities for themselves.
Michael Douglas Gilbert
#53. Capitalism is part of our system, but it's not for the faint of heart.
Michael Douglas
#55. If we confront anti-Semitism ... if we combat it individually and as a society, and use whatever platform we have to denounce it, we can stop the spread of this madness.
Michael Douglas
#57. 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
#59. '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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be.
Michael Douglas
#65. I'm a risk-taker. Most of my career has not been a joyful experience, but it has been challenging. I like the dangers.
Michael Douglas
#66. Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that's nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it's ignored, it withers.
Michael Douglas
#68. When I go on a holiday to a tropical place, I'll spray tan before I go.
Michael Douglas
#69. 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
#71. Basketball is great; no one in Europe seems to believe just how close the spectators can sit to the players.
Michael Douglas
#73. Players never die - they just try their luck at another table.
Michael Douglas
#74. The people who work in Wall Street still look up to Gordon Gekko. He's sort of a guru.
Michael Douglas
#75. 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
#76. I guess there are some women who like older men, but it's a smaller group.
Michael Douglas
#77. 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
#78. Of course I feel blessed that I have a wife that is 25 years younger.
Michael Douglas
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#84. 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.
Michael Douglas
#85. Of course it's important to make mistakes, as long as you grow from them.
Michael Douglas
#86. The so-called 'last golden age,' in the 1970s, most of those movies were independent films.
Michael Douglas
#87. I went into rehab to save my marriage, but I wound up saving myself.
Michael Douglas
#88. I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different.
Michael Douglas
#89. '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
#91. I'm the seventh child of George and Leona Douglas, and I don't ever remember a time when my father didn't work two jobs. When my mother was going to the grocery, or going to Mass, or trying to take care of seven kids in a run-down farmhouse.
Michael Keaton
#92. 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
#93. There are monsters in the world. They're called human beings. - Michael Diamond, from The Life Beyond
Douglas Clegg
#94. When you've accomplished a certain amount in your career, you're not so focused on your ambitions.
Michael Douglas
#95. Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.
Michael Douglas
#96. 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
#97. I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.
Michael Douglas
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. Own who you are," he commanded. "And don't apologize. Do you understand? Own it or it
will own you.
Penelope Douglas
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