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

Michael Douglas

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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

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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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" I've always worked hard and played hard, and I'm sure I'll be cleaning up my act in the future. "

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

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" I enjoy provocative things that are questionable. "

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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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" The Cold War's end pushed disarmament down most leaders' agendas. It's a sophisticated issue, which I think is one reason why it is not so hands-on to many people. It's not visceral. It's not like a starving child. "

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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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" Control is what gives you privacy. "

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

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" Early on, someone had told me, 'You know, the camera can always tell when you're lying.' And, Jesus, that intimidated me. 'The camera can always tell? How am I going to do this?' Until one day I thought, 'Wait a minute, acting is lying. Acting is all about lying.' "

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" Like my father, like most actors, I was a pretty ambitious guy. "

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

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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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" 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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" Of course it's important to make mistakes, as long as you grow from them. "

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

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" I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be. "

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

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" Religion has certainly been shoved down my throat. "

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

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

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" I met Michael Milken for the first time with Oliver Stone at the Drexel Burnham offices in Los Angeles. "

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" Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain. "

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

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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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