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" 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. "

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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. "

Michael Douglas

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" The Cold War's end pushed disarmament down most leaders' agendas. It's a sophisticated issue, which I think is one reason why it is not so hands-on to many people. It's not visceral. It's not like a starving child. "

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

" Directors have so much else to do besides tell actors what to do. There are so many issues and problems. "

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

" I enjoy provocative things that are questionable. "

" 'King of California' was just, I thought, a really great, fresh, original kind of script. I loved the tone, the mix of tragedy, comedy, and drama, and that it was a good part. "

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

" 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. "

" Serious is when they tell you, 'You've got cancer.' Cancer is serious, but then the rest of it is not. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't look good in tights. I know that. "

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

" The quality of health care in Canada is excellent. "

" 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 been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be. "

Michael Douglas

Never

Started

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I never really look at my movies. "

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

Michael Douglas

Older

Men

" Sometimes art imitates life. "

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

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

" I've just kind of been used to carrying movies. I look back and I'm just used to being in every single scene in a lot of pictures. "

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

" Religion has certainly been shoved down my throat. "

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