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" The quality of health care in Canada is excellent. "
Michael Douglas
Health
Quality
Excellent
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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. "
Michael Douglas
Time
Black
Live
" Kids know. They know everything. I would err on the side of pretty much sharing everything. "
Michael Douglas
Everything
Side
Sharing
" I've never been one to carefully calculate my career decisions, to sit on the outside looking in. I go with my passion and what moves me. "
Michael Douglas
Career
Looking
Decisions
" Of course I feel blessed that I have a wife that is 25 years younger. "
Michael Douglas
Wife
Blessed
Feel
" Paul Rudd is ripped. "
Michael Douglas
Paul
Ripped
" Control is what gives you privacy. "
Michael Douglas
You
Control
Gives
" The thing with cancer is that you want to get it as early as you can. "
Michael Douglas
Get
Want
Thing
" Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that's nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it's ignored, it withers. "
Michael Douglas
Like
Anything
Lovely
" 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.' "
Michael Douglas
Me
You
Camera
" For a long time, I can't say I was one who really enjoyed acting. I was always censoring it, or editing it, or analyzing it, rather than just going with it. "
Michael Douglas
Acting
Say
Long Time
" 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
" I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father. "
Michael Douglas
Pressure
Own
Identity
" Every empire eventually falls. "
Michael Douglas
Eventually
Falls
Every
" 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. "
Michael Douglas
Create
Father
Time
" I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be. "
Michael Douglas
Never
Next
Started
" My daughter is a horseback rider, so I try to watch her ride; we take holidays together. "
Michael Douglas
Try
Together
Ride
" I never really look at my movies. "
Michael Douglas
Look
Never
Movies
" I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work. "
Michael Douglas
Work
Chicago
Talk
" If a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is. "
Michael Douglas
Too
Good
Deal
" 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
" Celebrity gets you access to world leaders. "
Michael Douglas
You
Access
Celebrity
" 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
" I have nothing against her, and in fact I'm very fond of my first wife. But we should have ended that marriage eight or 10 years earlier. "
Michael Douglas
Fact
Her
Marriage
" I don't smile a lot in my pictures. I'm always so... grim. "
Michael Douglas
Smile
Always
Grim
" '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
" 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. "
Michael Douglas
Responsibility
You
Good
" I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different. "
Michael Douglas
Different
Always
Actor
" Like my father, like most actors, I was a pretty ambitious guy. "
Michael Douglas
Guy
Pretty
Most
" I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while. "
Michael Douglas
While
Could
Dad
" The arts are a celebration of life. "
Michael Douglas
Life
Celebration
Arts