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" I believe there is a spirit within us, which we nurture based upon our efforts and what we bring to the world. But it doesn't come from the outside; it comes from the inside. "

Michael Douglas

Spirit

I Believe

Believe

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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. "

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

" 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? "

" I enjoy provocative things that are questionable. "

" It's difficult for me to meet women because my crowd is much older. I know that for some of the young women I do meet, a relationship with me can be envisioned as a benefit to their career. "

Michael Douglas

Career

Relationship

" I try not to dwell too much on a bad marriage. "

" 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. "

" I've always liked Tina Turner. "

" I don't think tongue cancer is the best cancer for an actor. "

" I don't know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mean how long is that going to last? "

" I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different. "

" I think the quality of television, given the amount of time you have, how short you have, is proportionally so much better than most movies. "

" Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it. "

" I have nothing against her, and in fact I'm very fond of my first wife. But we should have ended that marriage eight or 10 years earlier. "

" 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. "

" Celebrity gets you access to world leaders. "

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

Michael Douglas

Place

Before

" 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. "

" Sometimes art imitates life. "

" I've never been one to carefully calculate my career decisions, to sit on the outside looking in. I go with my passion and what moves me. "

" I don't know if likeable, pleasant characters have enough conflict for me to want to do them. I admire those people, but I've never been that kind of screen presence who can do nothing. I need to do something. "

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

" Most of the stories I read are about my Hollywood pedigree. "

" When I was working on pictures with my father, there were a couple leading ladies to whom I wish I'd expressed how I felt rather than being too cool or too shy. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Religion has certainly been shoved down my throat. "

" In the movie 'Wall Street' I play Gordon Gekko, a greedy corporate executive who cheated to profit while innocent investors lost their savings. The movie was fiction, but the problem is real. "