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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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Michael Douglas

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Problem

Lost

" I've always liked Tina Turner. "

" The people who work in Wall Street still look up to Gordon Gekko. He's sort of a guru. "

" Actors, I have to say, most of the time, they elevate things; they don't screw things up most of the time. "

Michael Douglas

Time

Things

" 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. "

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

Michael Douglas

Never

Started

" 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. "

" I tell my kids they are going to live to over 100. "

" 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. "

" Of course I feel blessed that I have a wife that is 25 years younger. "

" Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than the person that's closest to us. And you just gotta remember not to take for granted that person that's closest to you. "

" My dad was a movie star. Having that name was good and bad. People think it's a silver spoon. It's not. "

" 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? "

" I don't smile a lot in my pictures. I'm always so... grim. "

" I don't know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mean how long is that going to last? "

" My own parents divorced when I was six. I was raised with my brother Joel by our mother on the East Coast, visiting my father in Los Angeles during holidays. When your parents are divorced, you don't know anything else, do you? "

" I don't know if likeable, pleasant characters have enough conflict for me to want to do them. I admire those people, but I've never been that kind of screen presence who can do nothing. I need to do something. "

" There are not a lot of sons or daughters of actors who have made it. Hollywood is awash with failures. "

" I never really look at my movies. "

" Sometimes art imitates life. "

" 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. "

" Serious is when they tell you, 'You've got cancer.' Cancer is serious, but then the rest of it is not. "

" I went into rehab to save my marriage, but I wound up saving myself. "

" Learning patience was not an easy lesson. "

" The so-called 'last golden age,' in the 1970s, most of those movies were independent films. "

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

" To me, Bermuda is a real family spot. "

Michael Douglas

Spot

Family

" My daughter is a horseback rider, so I try to watch her ride; we take holidays together. "

" 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. "

" I guess there are some women who like older men, but it's a smaller group. "

Michael Douglas

Older

Men