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

Michael Douglas

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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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" 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 don't look good in tights. I know that. "

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" I do think of myself as a bit of a loner, a bit of an independent. I'm one of those people who, when they're sick, like to curl up and remove myself. I don't like a lot of people around. There is nothing you can do to help. "

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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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" I've just kind of been used to carrying movies. I look back and I'm just used to being in every single scene in a lot of pictures. "

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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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" Control is what gives you privacy. "

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

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" 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. "

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" My daughter is a horseback rider, so I try to watch her ride; we take holidays together. "

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" The quality of health care in Canada is excellent. "

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" Most of the stories I read are about my Hollywood pedigree. "

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" The arts are a celebration of life. "

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" I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work. "

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" A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies. "

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

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

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" I never really look at my movies. "

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" Learning patience was not an easy lesson. "

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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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" Liberace was a lovely guy. "

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