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" I went into rehab to save my marriage, but I wound up saving myself. "

Michael Douglas

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" If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe? "

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

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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. "

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" For a long time, I can't say I was one who really enjoyed acting. I was always censoring it, or editing it, or analyzing it, rather than just going with it. "

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" I'm an optimistic guy. "

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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 movies are usually about stripping off the makeup, getting down to the skeleton. "

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" '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. "

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

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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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