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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. "

Michael Douglas

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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. "

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

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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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" Cancer has shown me what family is. It showed me a love that I never knew really existed. "

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" When I was working on pictures with my father, there were a couple leading ladies to whom I wish I'd expressed how I felt rather than being too cool or too shy. "

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

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" I never really look at my movies. "

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" Liberace was a lovely guy. "

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

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" I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father. "

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" Directors have so much else to do besides tell actors what to do. There are so many issues and problems. "

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" Actors, I have to say, most of the time, they elevate things; they don't screw things up most of the time. "

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" My father did 90-plus films. He was Spartacus! "

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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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" When I go on a holiday to a tropical place, I'll spray tan before I go. "

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" I don't wish ill will on anybody. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Learning patience was not an easy lesson. "

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" 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. "

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" The studios basically, besides developing some material, their strength is distribution. Distribution in any other business is a cost that you incur. You know, in a trucking business, you eat it. In a film business, distribution is a profit center. "

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

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" Liberace was one of the biggest stars in America. He was a kind of a phenomenon. "

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" 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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" 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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