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" There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life. "

Michael Douglas

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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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" 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' which my father had tried to get made for six, seven years, and I for four, was turned down by every studio. Every studio in the world had passed on it. "

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" Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain. "

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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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" '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. "

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" I don't think tongue cancer is the best cancer for an actor. "

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" In 'Wall Street,' Charlie Sheen carried that movie. "

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" Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" Control is what gives you privacy. "

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" I enjoy provocative things that are questionable. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 'Wall Street' was a very important movie for me in terms of my career. I won an Oscar, and then the film 'Fatal Attraction' came right after it. "

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" The one thing that men and women have in common - they both like the company of men. "

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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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" I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be. "

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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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" I never really look at my movies. "

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

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

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" Women are now very comfortable to have babies into their late 30s. You can be a father in your 50s. I'm not saying it's for everybody, and I think people have to get their own life secure before they take on the responsibility of a partner and children. "

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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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