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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" If a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is. "

" Celebrity gets you access to world leaders. "

" 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. "

" Kids know. They know everything. I would err on the side of pretty much sharing everything. "

" '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. "

Michael Douglas

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

" 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. "

" Of course I feel blessed that I have a wife that is 25 years younger. "

" During my first marriage, my career was the most important thing in my life. "

" My dad was a movie star. Having that name was good and bad. People think it's a silver spoon. It's not. "

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

" It took me too long to realise that if you go to a marriage counsellor to resolve problems, it's in his interest to keep the marriage going. "

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

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" The message from national security experts and citizens around the world is clear: The only way to eliminate the global nuclear danger is to eliminate all nuclear weapons. "

" Paul Rudd is ripped. "

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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. "

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

" 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' which my father had tried to get made for six, seven years, and I for four, was turned down by every studio. Every studio in the world had passed on it. "

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

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

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

" My marriage and my families come certainly before my career. "

" 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. "

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

" All the pictures I do are contemporary. I've sort of discovered I haven't really been into science fiction or period pictures. And so, in that vein, psychological thrillers play a big part. "

" When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move. "

" 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 thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while. "