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" I've been dying to do a Marvel picture for so long. "
Michael Douglas
Marvel
Been
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" The people who work in Wall Street still look up to Gordon Gekko. He's sort of a guru. "
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" I had a great stepfather. "
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" 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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" I don't wish ill will on anybody. "
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" If a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is. "
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" Sometimes art imitates life. "
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Imitates
Life
Sometimes
" My mother is Bermudan, so I had a lot of memories when I was a kid, used to go down to Bermuda a lot. "
Michael Douglas
Mother
Memories
Kid
" 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. "
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School
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" I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while. "
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" '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. "
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World
Over
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" I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father. "
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Pressure
Own
Identity
" 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. "
Michael Douglas
Pictures
Play
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" 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. "
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Time
Black
Live
" I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be. "
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Never
Next
Started
" 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. "
Michael Douglas
Wake Up
Morning
Love
" Kids know. They know everything. I would err on the side of pretty much sharing everything. "
Michael Douglas
Everything
Side
Sharing
" 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. "
Michael Douglas
Pictures
Used
Look
" I don't smile a lot in my pictures. I'm always so... grim. "
Michael Douglas
Smile
Always
Grim
" There are not a lot of sons or daughters of actors who have made it. Hollywood is awash with failures. "
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Lot
Made
Who
" When I go on a holiday to a tropical place, I'll spray tan before I go. "
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Place
Go
Before
" Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it. "
Michael Douglas
Being
Fear
Other
" My memories of Las Vegas were all with my father when I was, like, a teenager. He was best friends with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, and we'd come up and see the shows and go backstage afterwards and have dinner together. It was one of my first educations about stars and how they really are back stage. "
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Stars
Memories
Father
" 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. "
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American
Marriage
Mother
" I try not to dwell too much on a bad marriage. "
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Too
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" I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different. "
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Different
Always
Actor
" When you are a celebrity, nothing remains secret for very long. "
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Celebrity
You
Secret
" In 'Wall Street,' Charlie Sheen carried that movie. "
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Sheen
" 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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" Most of the stories I read are about my Hollywood pedigree. "
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