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" My four sons all knew I was a Jew, but they were allowed to be whatever they wanted to be. The only thing important to me was that they be good people who help other people, because all religion should try to make you a better person and a more caring person. Whenever religion does that for you, it's a good religion. "

Kirk Douglas

Help

Religion

Caring

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" Sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say, 'You're bright!' They're actually surprised I might be bright. "

" My mother, we were a very poor family. When I was a kid, we would be in our little room, and there would be a knock on the door almost every night with a hobo begging for food. Even though we didn't even have enough to eat, my mother always found something to give them. "

" My first job was on Broadway. Then I went into the Navy. When I came out of the Navy, I went back to Broadway and a friend of mine, Lauren Bacall, was in Hollywood filming with Humphrey Bogart. She told one of her producers I was great in my play, and he saw it and cast me in 'The Strange Love of Martha Ivers'. "

Kirk Douglas

Love

Great

" Cancer does give you a new rejuvenation. I know what it's like to be down. I lost a couple of good friends - Larry Hagman and Nick Ashford - who had the same type of cancer that I did, and that makes you think. "

" All my life, I have taken inventory at intervals. For example, when I became a movie actor and suddenly I had to deal with fame, money and playing so many roles, I lost myself. I said, 'Who am I?' And I wrote my first book to deal with that, 'The Ragman's Son.' "

" I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor. "

" What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder. "

" Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things. "

" Love has more depth as you get older. "

Kirk Douglas

Get

Depth

" I'm an actor; I have made my living by acting, and I almost think I owe it to the public to express my feelings and not as a character on a screen but as myself. "

" I studied Judaism a lot. I studied religion in general, and I have never imposed my Judaism on my kids. They are what they want to be. I think... you must care for others. That's the correct religion, I think. "

" If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married. "

" I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life. "

" You know, sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say - you're bright! They're actually surprised I might be bright. "

Kirk Douglas

Look

Say

" God bless Dad, he came to every one of my shows. I was bad, and I had horrible stage fright. My dad was so relieved - he'd say, 'You were terrible; this kid is not going to be an actor.' Finally, I did a play and he said, 'Son - you were really good.' "

" Virtue is not photogenic, so I liked playing bad guys. But, whenever I played a bad guy, I tried to find something good in him, and that kept my contact with the audience. "

" Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more. "

" No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right. "

Kirk Douglas

Matter

Bad

" I love talking to interesting people - people like O.J. Simpson, Andretti... I love champions. A champion has something special about him. "

" It's tough to make a movie about movies... We're all too close to it. But 'The Bad and the Beautiful' was very good. "

" Acting is a youthful profession. "

" I think religion has caused so much catastrophe in the world. "

" I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted. "

" I was conscious of my father's fame from the time I was 6. "

" Being second generation in Hollywood is complicated: Success is expected, and yet the track record of the second generation is not great. Only a small group of us, like Jane Fonda, have succeeded. "