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" I love talking to interesting people - people like O.J. Simpson, Andretti... I love champions. A champion has something special about him. "
Kirk Douglas
Him
Interesting
Love
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" Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things. "
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" The learning process continues until the day you die. "
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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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" When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back. "
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" Acting is a youthful profession. "
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" All my life, I have taken inventory at intervals. For example, when I became a movie actor and suddenly I had to deal with fame, money and playing so many roles, I lost myself. I said, 'Who am I?' And I wrote my first book to deal with that, 'The Ragman's Son.' "
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" When I first came to Hollywood, the blacklist was just starting, and they were having hearings in Washington. What most people don't know is the judge of these hearings himself was later convicted of misappropriation. 'Spartacus' helped break the blacklist, because Spartacus was a real character. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Fifteen years ago, I suffered a stroke, which caused me to lose my speech. Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back? I work with a speech therapist twice a week. "
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Me
" 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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" Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive. "
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Dog
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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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Door
Family
Food
" Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all. "
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" All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor. "
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Never
Kid
" 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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" 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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" I didn't think I was so tough until I did 'Champion'; then I was a tough guy. "
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Think
Champion
Tough
" I was conscious of my father's fame from the time I was 6. "
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Time
Father
Fame
" I have been an actor for most of my life. When I started out, I didn't think about anything except what was good for me. Like many movie stars, I became all wrapped up in myself. "
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Me
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" Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back? "
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" Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free. "
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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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" You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity. "
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" I was not a very good Jew. I never practised what Judaism tells you to do, to teach your kids all about Judaism. "
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" Acting is make-believe. I never believe I'm the character; I want you to believe. "
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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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" 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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Group
" 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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Time
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