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" Cancer didn't bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet. "

Michael Douglas

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" For a long time, I can't say I was one who really enjoyed acting. I was always censoring it, or editing it, or analyzing it, rather than just going with it. "

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" I don't smile a lot in my pictures. I'm always so... grim. "

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" There are not a lot of sons or daughters of actors who have made it. Hollywood is awash with failures. "

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" The people who work in Wall Street still look up to Gordon Gekko. He's sort of a guru. "

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" Of course I feel blessed that I have a wife that is 25 years younger. "

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" The one thing that men and women have in common - they both like the company of men. "

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" I tell my kids they are going to live to over 100. "

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" My memories of Las Vegas were all with my father when I was, like, a teenager. He was best friends with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, and we'd come up and see the shows and go backstage afterwards and have dinner together. It was one of my first educations about stars and how they really are back stage. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" '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. "

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" There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life. "

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" Celebrity gets you access to world leaders. "

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" My father did 90-plus films. He was Spartacus! "

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