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" When you are a celebrity, nothing remains secret for very long. "
Michael Douglas
Celebrity
You
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" I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different. "
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" 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. "
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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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" There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" For an actor, it's great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them. "
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" Serious is when they tell you, 'You've got cancer.' Cancer is serious, but then the rest of it is not. "
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" I don't think tongue cancer is the best cancer for an actor. "
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" Control is what gives you privacy. "
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" Most of the stories I read are about my Hollywood pedigree. "
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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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" I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work. "
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" Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that's nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it's ignored, it withers. "
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" When I was working on pictures with my father, there were a couple leading ladies to whom I wish I'd expressed how I felt rather than being too cool or too shy. "
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" Every empire eventually falls. "
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" I never really look at my movies. "
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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'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. "
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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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