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" When you've accomplished a certain amount in your career, you're not so focused on your ambitions. "
Michael Douglas
Focused
Career
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" Most of the stories I read are about my Hollywood pedigree. "
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" I was there the night John Lennon was shot, three blocks away. It left a lasting impression on me. "
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" Every empire eventually falls. "
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" I've been dying to do a Marvel picture for so long. "
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" I've always worked hard and played hard, and I'm sure I'll be cleaning up my act in the future. "
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" I've always liked Tina Turner. "
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" The studios basically, besides developing some material, their strength is distribution. Distribution in any other business is a cost that you incur. You know, in a trucking business, you eat it. In a film business, distribution is a profit center. "
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" I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father. "
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" Liberace was one of the biggest stars in America. He was a kind of a phenomenon. "
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" Sometimes art imitates life. "
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" 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. "
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" I went into rehab to save my marriage, but I wound up saving myself. "
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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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" In 'Wall Street,' Charlie Sheen carried that movie. "
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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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Life
Women
" Our economy is increasingly dependent on the success and integrity of the financial markets. "
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" During my first marriage, my career was the most important thing in my life. "
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My Life
Most
" All the pictures I do are contemporary. I've sort of discovered I haven't really been into science fiction or period pictures. And so, in that vein, psychological thrillers play a big part. "
Michael Douglas
Pictures
Play
Science
" Of course I feel blessed that I have a wife that is 25 years younger. "
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Wife
Blessed
Feel
" I never really look at my movies. "
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Look
Never
Movies
" Paul Rudd is ripped. "
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Paul
Ripped
" I don't look good in tights. I know that. "
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Tights
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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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Career
Me
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" I met Michael Milken for the first time with Oliver Stone at the Drexel Burnham offices in Los Angeles. "
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First Time
Los Angeles
Time
" I love kids, and I love having had this second chance to have a family. "
Michael Douglas
Chance
Love
Second Chance
" If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe? "
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You
Progress
Emotions
" My father did 90-plus films. He was Spartacus! "
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Did
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" I guess there are some women who like older men, but it's a smaller group. "
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" Of course it's important to make mistakes, as long as you grow from them. "
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