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The thing with cancer is that you want to get it as early as you can.

Directing talent is very nebulous. You know, it's not in front of you like an actor's performance.

Michael Douglas

I try not to dwell too much on a bad marriage.

Michael Douglas

I love kids, and I love having had this second chance to have a family.

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Liberace was a lovely guy.

Michael Douglas

I was there the night John Lennon was shot, three blocks away. It left a lasting impression on me.

Michael Douglas

The thing with cancer is that you want to get it as early as you can.

Michael Douglas

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

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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.

Michael Douglas

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

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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.

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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.

Michael Douglas

For an actor, it's great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them.

Michael Douglas

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.

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I enjoy provocative things that are questionable.

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Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.

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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.

Michael Douglas

When you've accomplished a certain amount in your career, you're not so focused on your ambitions.

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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.

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My father did 90-plus films. He was Spartacus!

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I haven't played a lot of nice guys.

Michael Douglas

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?

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I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different.

Michael Douglas

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.

Michael Douglas

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.

Michael Douglas

Directors have so much else to do besides tell actors what to do. There are so many issues and problems.

Michael Douglas

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

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

Michael Douglas

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.

Michael Douglas

There is something about seeing rhinos and lions running free that excites you. It's not that you feel afraid; it's more like you're liberated by seeing them.

Michael Douglas

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

Michael Douglas

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

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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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Every empire eventually falls.

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I come from a tough stock.

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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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