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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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" 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. "

Michael Douglas

Responsibility

You

Good

" In 'Wall Street,' Charlie Sheen carried that movie. "

" 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. "

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

" Retiring gives the impression that you're relieved that your job is over. "

" I believe there is a spirit within us, which we nurture based upon our efforts and what we bring to the world. But it doesn't come from the outside; it comes from the inside. "

" Liberace was a lovely guy. "

" I've been dying to do a Marvel picture for so long. "

" Cancer didn't bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet. "

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

" 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. "

" Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow. "

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

" I think the quality of television, given the amount of time you have, how short you have, is proportionally so much better than most movies. "

" 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. "

Michael Douglas

You

Problems

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

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

" Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that's nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it's ignored, it withers. "

Michael Douglas

Anything

Lovely

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" I love kids, and I love having had this second chance to have a family. "

" The so-called 'last golden age,' in the 1970s, most of those movies were independent films. "

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

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

" It's difficult for me to meet women because my crowd is much older. I know that for some of the young women I do meet, a relationship with me can be envisioned as a benefit to their career. "

Michael Douglas

Career

Relationship

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

Michael Douglas

Older

Men

" When you've accomplished a certain amount in your career, you're not so focused on your ambitions. "

" I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different. "