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" Kids know. They know everything. I would err on the side of pretty much sharing everything. "
Michael Douglas
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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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" 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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" Of course I feel blessed that I have a wife that is 25 years younger. "
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" My own parents divorced when I was six. I was raised with my brother Joel by our mother on the East Coast, visiting my father in Los Angeles during holidays. When your parents are divorced, you don't know anything else, do you? "
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" 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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" 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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" The arts are a celebration of life. "
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" You just have to know what your responsibility is to the movie, and live up to that, and be considerate of the other actors in the scene... I have never been competitive in that way - I always want my leading ladies to be as good as they possibly can be. "
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" I enjoy provocative things that are questionable. "
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" I never really look at my movies. "
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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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" When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move. "
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" There are not a lot of sons or daughters of actors who have made it. Hollywood is awash with failures. "
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" I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father. "
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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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" The people who work in Wall Street still look up to Gordon Gekko. He's sort of a guru. "
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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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" Like my father, like most actors, I was a pretty ambitious guy. "
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" During my first marriage, my career was the most important thing in my life. "
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" My father did 90-plus films. He was Spartacus! "
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" I have hardly ever worked with the same director twice. But when you have worked with a director before, you understand his behavior. "
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