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All Quotes by author - Kirk Douglas

" Acting is a youthful profession. "

" Acting is make-believe. I never believe I'm the character; I want you to believe. "

" All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more. "

" Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things. "

" 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. "

" God bless Dad, he came to every one of my shows. I was bad, and I had horrible stage fright. My dad was so relieved - he'd say, 'You were terrible; this kid is not going to be an actor.' Finally, I did a play and he said, 'Son - you were really good.' "

" I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up. "

" I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor. "

" I didn't think I was so tough until I did 'Champion'; then I was a tough guy. "

" 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. "

" If I have to speak in public, I am terrified. "

" If I thought a man had never committed a sin in his life, I don't think I'd want to talk with him. A man with flaws is more interesting. "

" If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married. "

" I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have studied religion, and I have concluded that there is some power. We don't understand it. "

" I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians. "

" I love talking to interesting people - people like O.J. Simpson, Andretti... I love champions. A champion has something special about him. "

" I'm an actor; I have made my living by acting, and I almost think I owe it to the public to express my feelings and not as a character on a screen but as myself. "

" 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. "

" In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail. "

" 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. "

" I think religion has caused so much catastrophe in the world. "

" 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. "

" I was conscious of my father's fame from the time I was 6. "

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