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" I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life. "
Kirk Douglas
Women
Bad Boy
Bad
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" The learning process continues until the day you die. "
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" I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is play Spider Solitaire. And I don't have a cell phone. "
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" I was conscious of my father's fame from the time I was 6. "
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" I studied Judaism a lot. I studied religion in general, and I have never imposed my Judaism on my kids. They are what they want to be. I think... you must care for others. That's the correct religion, I think. "
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" Acting is a youthful profession. "
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Youthful
" No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right. "
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" My four sons all knew I was a Jew, but they were allowed to be whatever they wanted to be. The only thing important to me was that they be good people who help other people, because all religion should try to make you a better person and a more caring person. Whenever religion does that for you, it's a good religion. "
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" I'm an actor; I have made my living by acting, and I almost think I owe it to the public to express my feelings and not as a character on a screen but as myself. "
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" I have studied religion, and I have concluded that there is some power. We don't understand it. "
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Some
Understand
Power
" You know, sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say - you're bright! They're actually surprised I might be bright. "
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Look
Me
Say
" I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss. "
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Nobody
Boss
Me
" I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians. "
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Best
Father
Friends
" I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up. "
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I Came
" If I have to speak in public, I am terrified. "
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Terrified
Am
" Acting is make-believe. I never believe I'm the character; I want you to believe. "
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" Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive. "
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Woman
Dog
Loving
" I have been an actor for most of my life. When I started out, I didn't think about anything except what was good for me. Like many movie stars, I became all wrapped up in myself. "
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Myself
Me
Good
" Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more. "
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Fame
Luck
Talent
" In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail. "
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Enough
Fail
Order
" I was living in a terrible time when people were being accused of being communists, and they attacked the movie industry, especially the writers. People couldn't work if they were on the blacklist. The studios banned them. It was the most onerous period in movie history. I don't think we have ever had a period so dark as that. "
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Think
Time
Dark
" Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody. "
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Fat
Virtue
Big
" I didn't think I was so tough until I did 'Champion'; then I was a tough guy. "
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Think
Champion
Tough
" I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted. "
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Film
Thought
Had
" Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free. "
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Thing
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" You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity. "
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Adversity
Deal
Philosophy
" Virtue is not photogenic, so I liked playing bad guys. But, whenever I played a bad guy, I tried to find something good in him, and that kept my contact with the audience. "
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Him
Audience
Virtue
" Love has more depth as you get older. "
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Depth
" It's tough to make a movie about movies... We're all too close to it. But 'The Bad and the Beautiful' was very good. "
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Tough
Beautiful
Too
" When you have a stroke, you must talk slowly to be understood, and I've discovered that when I talk slowly, people listen. They think I'm going to say something important! "
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Think
People
" Too often, I have not been what I wanted to be; I've succumbed to pressures. Yes, I have. The things I've done that I liked, I've always done against advice. "
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Always
Yes
Done