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" Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive. "
Kirk Douglas
Woman
Dog
Loving
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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.' "
Kirk Douglas
Myself
Son
Money
" I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted. "
Kirk Douglas
Film
Thought
Had
" I was not a very good Jew. I never practised what Judaism tells you to do, to teach your kids all about Judaism. "
Kirk Douglas
Judaism
You
Teach
" You know, sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say - you're bright! They're actually surprised I might be bright. "
Kirk Douglas
Look
Me
Say
" Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more. "
Kirk Douglas
Fame
Luck
Talent
" I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life. "
Kirk Douglas
Women
Bad Boy
Bad
" I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is play Spider Solitaire. And I don't have a cell phone. "
Kirk Douglas
Wife
Cell Phone
Day
" 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. "
Kirk Douglas
Tough
Beautiful
Too
" I have studied religion, and I have concluded that there is some power. We don't understand it. "
Kirk Douglas
Some
Understand
Power
" 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. "
Kirk Douglas
Think
Time
Dark
" Acting is a youthful profession. "
Kirk Douglas
Profession
Acting
Youthful
" Love has more depth as you get older. "
Kirk Douglas
More
Get
Depth
" 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. "
Kirk Douglas
Him
Audience
Virtue
" 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. "
Kirk Douglas
Door
Family
Food
" 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. "
Kirk Douglas
Help
Religion
Caring
" Acting is make-believe. I never believe I'm the character; I want you to believe. "
Kirk Douglas
You
Acting
Character
" All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor. "
Kirk Douglas
Grow
Never
Kid
" 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
" 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. "
Kirk Douglas
Always
Yes
Done
" I think religion has caused so much catastrophe in the world. "
Kirk Douglas
World
I Think
Much
" Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free. "
Kirk Douglas
You
Thing
Sometimes
" When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does. "
Kirk Douglas
Become
Star
You
" Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things. "
Kirk Douglas
Fear
You
Things
" I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians. "
Kirk Douglas
Best
Father
Friends
" 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? "
Kirk Douglas
People
Me
Work
" In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail. "
Kirk Douglas
Enough
Fail
Order
" Sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say, 'You're bright!' They're actually surprised I might be bright. "
Kirk Douglas
You
Say
Bright
" I was conscious of my father's fame from the time I was 6. "
Kirk Douglas
Time
Father
Fame
" Cancer does give you a new rejuvenation. I know what it's like to be down. I lost a couple of good friends - Larry Hagman and Nick Ashford - who had the same type of cancer that I did, and that makes you think. "
Kirk Douglas
Friends
Good
Know
" I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor. "
Kirk Douglas
Actor
Out
Star