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" I was undeclared. I was in my third year of school. They said you have to decide upon a major, and my father was an actor. My mother was an actress. So, I thought theater might be the way to go. "

Michael Douglas

Mother

School

Thought

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

" I'm a risk-taker. Most of my career has not been a joyful experience, but it has been challenging. I like the dangers. "

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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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" 'Wall Street' was a very important movie for me in terms of my career. I won an Oscar, and then the film 'Fatal Attraction' came right after it. "

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

" I come from a tough stock. "

" I don't ever do those kind of epic, huge, green-screen movies. "

" I met Michael Milken for the first time with Oliver Stone at the Drexel Burnham offices in Los Angeles. "

" Celebrity gets you access to world leaders. "

" I tell my kids they are going to live to over 100. "

" 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? "

" Do you know what absolute happiness is? For me, it is to wake up my kids in the morning - these little pieces of innocence - to wake them and find they're so happy to see me! It is unequivocal love, no question about it. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I never really look at my movies. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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Older

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