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" Our economy is increasingly dependent on the success and integrity of the financial markets. "
Michael Douglas
Financial
Integrity
Success
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" There are not a lot of sons or daughters of actors who have made it. Hollywood is awash with failures. "
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Lot
Made
Who
" The message from national security experts and citizens around the world is clear: The only way to eliminate the global nuclear danger is to eliminate all nuclear weapons. "
Michael Douglas
Way
Security
Message
" Serious is when they tell you, 'You've got cancer.' Cancer is serious, but then the rest of it is not. "
Michael Douglas
You
Got
Rest
" I never really look at my movies. "
Michael Douglas
Look
Never
Movies
" Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than the person that's closest to us. And you just gotta remember not to take for granted that person that's closest to you. "
Michael Douglas
Remember
You
People
" 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
Mother
Memories
Kid
" Paul Rudd is ripped. "
Michael Douglas
Paul
Ripped
" Liberace was one of the biggest stars in America. He was a kind of a phenomenon. "
Michael Douglas
Kind
He
America
" I don't smile a lot in my pictures. I'm always so... grim. "
Michael Douglas
Smile
Always
Grim
" 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. "
Michael Douglas
Pictures
Used
Look
" I grew up on the East Coast and was going to go to an Ivy League School, but at the last minute I decided to be a hippy. It was the protest movements on the war, peace movements were going on at our university. It was a fantastic time. "
Michael Douglas
War
Last
Protest
" My father did 90-plus films. He was Spartacus! "
Michael Douglas
Films
Did
Father
" 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. "
Michael Douglas
Spirit
I Believe
Believe
" Cancer didn't bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet. "
Michael Douglas
Knees
Bring
Brought
" I don't ever do those kind of epic, huge, green-screen movies. "
Michael Douglas
Those
Kind
Movies
" I met Michael Milken for the first time with Oliver Stone at the Drexel Burnham offices in Los Angeles. "
Michael Douglas
First Time
Los Angeles
Time
" Of course I feel blessed that I have a wife that is 25 years younger. "
Michael Douglas
Wife
Blessed
Feel
" 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. "
Michael Douglas
Short
Think
You
" 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. "
Michael Douglas
Time
Black
Live
" I went into rehab to save my marriage, but I wound up saving myself. "
Michael Douglas
Myself
Rehab
Save
" I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be. "
Michael Douglas
Never
Next
Started
" I guess there are some women who like older men, but it's a smaller group. "
Michael Douglas
Older
Like
Men
" '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. "
Michael Douglas
Good
Thought
Loved
" 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. "
Michael Douglas
American
Marriage
Mother
" 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. "
Michael Douglas
Good
Best
Want
" 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
Me
" For an actor, it's great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them. "
Michael Douglas
White
Hate
Love
" 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. "
Michael Douglas
Man
You
Care
" 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. "
Michael Douglas
You
Seeing
Free
" 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
Go
You
Problems