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" 'Five Easy Pieces,' 'Easy Rider' - those are indie pictures; those were not studio pictures. They had relationships with studio distribution, but they were indies. "

Michael Douglas

Five

Pictures

Relationships

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Michael Douglas

Career

Relationship

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that's nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it's ignored, it withers. "

Michael Douglas

Anything

Lovely

" If a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is. "

" I was there the night John Lennon was shot, three blocks away. It left a lasting impression on me. "

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

" When I go on a holiday to a tropical place, I'll spray tan before I go. "

Michael Douglas

Place

Before

" I never really look at my movies. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There is something about seeing rhinos and lions running free that excites you. It's not that you feel afraid; it's more like you're liberated by seeing them. "

" Like my father, like most actors, I was a pretty ambitious guy. "

" Actors, I have to say, most of the time, they elevate things; they don't screw things up most of the time. "

Michael Douglas

Time

Things

" I guess there are some women who like older men, but it's a smaller group. "

Michael Douglas

Older

Men

" I haven't played a lot of nice guys. "

" All the pictures I do are contemporary. I've sort of discovered I haven't really been into science fiction or period pictures. And so, in that vein, psychological thrillers play a big part. "