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" When I go on a holiday to a tropical place, I'll spray tan before I go. "
Michael Douglas
Place
Go
Before
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" Retiring gives the impression that you're relieved that your job is over. "
Michael Douglas
Job
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Your
" Paul Rudd is ripped. "
Michael Douglas
Paul
Ripped
" 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
" Directing talent is very nebulous. You know, it's not in front of you like an actor's performance. "
Michael Douglas
Performance
Actor
Know
" 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. "
Michael Douglas
Mother
School
Thought
" The quality of health care in Canada is excellent. "
Michael Douglas
Health
Quality
Excellent
" 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. "
Michael Douglas
Stars
Memories
Father
" 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 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
" I enjoy provocative things that are questionable. "
Michael Douglas
Questionable
Enjoy
Provocative
" I'm a risk-taker. Most of my career has not been a joyful experience, but it has been challenging. I like the dangers. "
Michael Douglas
Like
Career
Experience
" I had a great stepfather. "
Michael Douglas
Great
Had
Stepfather
" I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father. "
Michael Douglas
Pressure
Own
Identity
" In the movie 'Wall Street' I play Gordon Gekko, a greedy corporate executive who cheated to profit while innocent investors lost their savings. The movie was fiction, but the problem is real. "
Michael Douglas
Play
Problem
Lost
" The thing with cancer is that you want to get it as early as you can. "
Michael Douglas
Get
Want
Thing
" 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
" Like my father, like most actors, I was a pretty ambitious guy. "
Michael Douglas
Guy
Pretty
Most
" I never really look at my movies. "
Michael Douglas
Look
Never
Movies
" Celebrity gets you access to world leaders. "
Michael Douglas
You
Access
Celebrity
" I come from a tough stock. "
Michael Douglas
Come
Stock
Tough
" Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain. "
Michael Douglas
Everything
Now
You
" Liberace was one of the biggest stars in America. He was a kind of a phenomenon. "
Michael Douglas
Kind
He
America
" I try not to dwell too much on a bad marriage. "
Michael Douglas
Too
Bad
Try
" I love kids, and I love having had this second chance to have a family. "
Michael Douglas
Chance
Love
Second Chance
" The Cold War's end pushed disarmament down most leaders' agendas. It's a sophisticated issue, which I think is one reason why it is not so hands-on to many people. It's not visceral. It's not like a starving child. "
Michael Douglas
Child
War
People
" My daughter is a horseback rider, so I try to watch her ride; we take holidays together. "
Michael Douglas
Try
Together
Ride
" 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
" Of course I feel blessed that I have a wife that is 25 years younger. "
Michael Douglas
Wife
Blessed
Feel
" There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life. "
Michael Douglas
Life
Nothing
Crisis
" I have hardly ever worked with the same director twice. But when you have worked with a director before, you understand his behavior. "
Michael Douglas
His
You
Director