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" I didn't think I was so tough until I did 'Champion'; then I was a tough guy. "
Kirk Douglas
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" When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does. "
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" No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right. "
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" It's tough to make a movie about movies... We're all too close to it. But 'The Bad and the Beautiful' was very good. "
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" I think religion has caused so much catastrophe in the world. "
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" People are composed of many things, and in my work, what influences me is the complexity of people - the chiaroscuro of dark and light. When I play a strong guy, I try to find, where is he weak? And, conversely, when I play a weak guy, where is he strong? "
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" What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder. "
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" I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss. "
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" I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians. "
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" If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married. "
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" I studied Judaism a lot. I studied religion in general, and I have never imposed my Judaism on my kids. They are what they want to be. I think... you must care for others. That's the correct religion, I think. "
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" Love has more depth as you get older. "
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" Virtue is not photogenic, so I liked playing bad guys. But, whenever I played a bad guy, I tried to find something good in him, and that kept my contact with the audience. "
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" Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody. "
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" I was conscious of my father's fame from the time I was 6. "
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" Too often, I have not been what I wanted to be; I've succumbed to pressures. Yes, I have. The things I've done that I liked, I've always done against advice. "
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" Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free. "
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" Being second generation in Hollywood is complicated: Success is expected, and yet the track record of the second generation is not great. Only a small group of us, like Jane Fonda, have succeeded. "
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" My four sons all knew I was a Jew, but they were allowed to be whatever they wanted to be. The only thing important to me was that they be good people who help other people, because all religion should try to make you a better person and a more caring person. Whenever religion does that for you, it's a good religion. "
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" Acting is make-believe. I never believe I'm the character; I want you to believe. "
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" You know, sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say - you're bright! They're actually surprised I might be bright. "
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" Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all. "
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" I was living in a terrible time when people were being accused of being communists, and they attacked the movie industry, especially the writers. People couldn't work if they were on the blacklist. The studios banned them. It was the most onerous period in movie history. I don't think we have ever had a period so dark as that. "
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" Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more. "
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" My mother, we were a very poor family. When I was a kid, we would be in our little room, and there would be a knock on the door almost every night with a hobo begging for food. Even though we didn't even have enough to eat, my mother always found something to give them. "
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