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" During my first marriage, my career was the most important thing in my life. "
Michael Douglas
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" My own parents divorced when I was six. I was raised with my brother Joel by our mother on the East Coast, visiting my father in Los Angeles during holidays. When your parents are divorced, you don't know anything else, do you? "
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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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" I've taken blame about being a bad father - if being a bad father is working your butt off trying to create a career at one time. "
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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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" 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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" 'Wall Street' was a very important movie for me in terms of my career. I won an Oscar, and then the film 'Fatal Attraction' came right after it. "
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" It took me too long to realise that if you go to a marriage counsellor to resolve problems, it's in his interest to keep the marriage going. "
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" Learning patience was not an easy lesson. "
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" I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be. "
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" Early on, someone had told me, 'You know, the camera can always tell when you're lying.' And, Jesus, that intimidated me. 'The camera can always tell? How am I going to do this?' Until one day I thought, 'Wait a minute, acting is lying. Acting is all about lying.' "
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" The studios basically, besides developing some material, their strength is distribution. Distribution in any other business is a cost that you incur. You know, in a trucking business, you eat it. In a film business, distribution is a profit center. "
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" I think sometimes in relationships, ladies like having a man who takes care of them, nurtures them. If you can't find it in a man your own age, you find it in somebody who is older. "
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" The thing with cancer is that you want to get it as early as you can. "
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" I've always worked hard and played hard, and I'm sure I'll be cleaning up my act in the future. "
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" I grew up on the East Coast and was going to go to an Ivy League School, but at the last minute I decided to be a hippy. It was the protest movements on the war, peace movements were going on at our university. It was a fantastic time. "
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