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" For an actor, it's great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them. "

Michael Douglas

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" Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than the person that's closest to us. And you just gotta remember not to take for granted that person that's closest to you. "

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" People are goofy about the movie business, so you end up counting on friends you knew before you were successful. It is harder to make new friends because you are a little more cautious. "

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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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" The thing with cancer is that you want to get it as early as you can. "

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" A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies. "

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" Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow. "

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" I do think of myself as a bit of a loner, a bit of an independent. I'm one of those people who, when they're sick, like to curl up and remove myself. I don't like a lot of people around. There is nothing you can do to help. "

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

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" I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work. "

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" To me, Bermuda is a real family spot. "

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" Our economy is increasingly dependent on the success and integrity of the financial markets. "

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" My mother is Bermudan, so I had a lot of memories when I was a kid, used to go down to Bermuda a lot. "

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" Directing talent is very nebulous. You know, it's not in front of you like an actor's performance. "

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" With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time with different brokers on 'Wall Street.' It helps get the rhythm of the piece and the tone, and how overplayed or underplayed it might be. That's also the magic of movies: You get to hang out and live these different lives. "

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" My marriage and my families come certainly before my career. "

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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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" 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. "

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

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" I've always liked Tina Turner. "

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

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" Religion has certainly been shoved down my throat. "

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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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