Michael Douglas famous quotes

If we confront anti-Semitism ... if we combat it individually and as a society, and use whatever platform we have to denounce it, we can stop the spread of this madness.
-- Michael Douglas

#Use #Madness #Platforms

My entire career is contemporary based, not by choice, but just by character. So, all the movies I've done, except for one in 40 years, are contemporary. But I never did an effects movie. So, I'm also a producer and I was really curious about how this whole thing went together.
-- Michael Douglas

#Character #Years #Careers

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

#New York #Hype #People

I don't even know why, but my entire career is contemporary films. Entire career! There's no period movies - there's one - but there's no period movies, no special effects movies. I just do character studies and so, some of them are gonna bump into each other, but I love the challenge, with a good script. I love the challenge of playing not a very pleasant or attractive character that seduces an audience or wins an audience over by the end.
-- Michael Douglas

#Character #Winning #Careers

Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.
-- Michael Douglas

#Political #Arms #Bullets

Since Catherine [Zeta-Jones] and I got together, I've cut back dramatically. My priorities changed, and I still love acting and all that, but not as much as I love watching my two kids grow up.
-- Michael Douglas

#Growing Up #Kids #Cutting

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

#Hands #Actresses

Even when you're acting with a producing hat, when you're in every scene, you're really conscious of trying to make everybody as good as they are, because ultimately you're trying to make the best movie possible.
-- Michael Douglas

#Trying #Acting #Hats

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.
-- Michael Douglas

#Greed

You have to make entertaining movies. But like a good meal, it's nice to have a little food for thought after you walk out of the theater rather than just wiling away a couple of hours.
-- Michael Douglas

#Couple #Nice #Meals

Cancer did not bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet.
-- Michael Douglas

#Cancer #Feet #Knees

Every empire eventually falls.
-- Michael Douglas

#Fall #Empires

Suddenly you've worked yourself up to the top of the pecking order and you say to yourself, okay, this is going to be fun.
-- Michael Douglas

#Fun #Order #Pecking Order

Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.
-- Michael Douglas

#Tolls #Energy #Chemotherapy

There was a lot of tabloid journalism about my supposed sex addiction. Bullshit. It's all bullshit. I mean, come on, I never pretended to be a saint. But give me a break.
-- Michael Douglas

#Sex #Mean #Giving

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

#Divorce #Force #Crisis

Never knew how poor I was until I started making money.
-- Michael Douglas

#Making Money #Poor

The hardest thing about sex scenes is that everybody is a judge. I don't know the last time you murdered somebody or blew anyone's brains out, but everyone has had sex and probably this morning, which means everyone has an opinion on how it should be done.
-- Michael Douglas

#Morning #Sex #Mean

I'm questioning it. We're trying to get a lot of money for health and education and I'm wondering... You look at these gangs, and I look back at Prohibition. When we didn't allow alcohol, what did we have? We had gangs. We had big gangs. It's something that needs to be discussed a little more. It's an economic issue and a violence issue.
-- Michael Douglas

#Weed #Marijuana #Issues

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.
-- Michael Douglas

#Careers #Crowds #Benefits

I have met with political leaders, legislators, and diplomats, seeking the next steps to press in reducing and eliminating the nuclear threat in this century. I have participated in public coalitions developing programmes for action to combat the global rash of small arms. All are trying and making a difference.
-- Michael Douglas

#Differences #Leader #Political

With little knowledge of what it meant to be a Jew, I found myself passionately defending the Jewish people. Now, half a century later, I have to defend my son. Anti-Semitism, I've seen, is like a disease that goes dormant, flaring up with the next political trigger.
-- Michael Douglas

#Son #People #Political

I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.
-- Michael Douglas

#Dad #Actors

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

#Generations

I went into rehab to save my marriage, but I wound up saving myself.
-- Michael Douglas

#Rehab #Saving #Wounds

I dont know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mean how long is that going to last?
-- Michael Douglas

#Beautiful #Mean #Long

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

#Men #Common #Men And Women

Money itself isn’t lost or made.  It’s simply transferred from one perception to another.
-- Michael Douglas

#Perception #Made #Lost

Out there is nothing but possibilities.
-- Michael Douglas

#Possibility

Oh, I get it, it's simple. PG means the hero gets the girl, 15 means that the villain gets the girl, and 18 means everybody gets the girl.
-- Michael Douglas

#Girl #Hero #Mean

It's important to save your money. We need it for the long haul but too many Americans don't save and don't invest. It used to be that people would be proud of the fact that they were middle class. You'd have your church and buy a house and you had a car and everything else. Now, it's really, really tough. Everybody has financial issues except for the one percent.
-- Michael Douglas

#Success #Class #Issues

When I look at myself as a younger actor, I see what a tight ***** I was. I had a pretty big shadow because of my father and the comparisons. I was self-conscious about that. Now I realize there was nothing to be worried about.
-- Michael Douglas

#Success #Father #Self

Players never die - they just try their luck at another table.
-- Michael Douglas

#Death #Player #Luck

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies and cuts through to the essence of the evolutionary spirit.
-- Michael Douglas

#Money #Cutting #Essence

A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.
-- Michael Douglas

#Money #Together #Fool

What's worth doing is worth doing for money.
-- Michael Douglas

#Money

My brain cannot conceive how old my body is.
-- Michael Douglas

#Brain #Body #Aging

Being single is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility.
-- Michael Douglas

#Single #Nice #Being Single

It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation.
-- Michael Douglas

#Money #Kids #Bucks

I'm not a big filmophile. I don't watch movies a lot for a hobby. I spend all my time watching sporting events. Because, opposed to movies, you can never tell how they're going to end.
-- Michael Douglas

#Watches #Hobbies #Events

Relationships are like bubbles – they’re fragile.
-- Michael Douglas

#Bubbles

The history of second-generation actors isn't great in our industry,
-- Michael Douglas

#Generations #Actors

When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.
-- Michael Douglas

#Hurt #Moving #Passion

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

#Wings #Different #Actors

Someone reminded me I once said, 'Greed is good.' Now it seems it's legal.
-- Michael Douglas

#Greed #Said #Greed Is Good

For an actor, its great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them.
-- Michael Douglas

#Fun #Hate #Play

We must unite to make nuclear weapons a horror of the past.
-- Michael Douglas

#Past #Weapons #Nuclear

Greed is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed will save the U.S.A.!
-- Michael Douglas

#Business #Greed #Greed Is Good

Human Rights for everyone is the necessary foundation upon which all of us may build a world where everybody may live in peace and serenity and plenty.
-- Michael Douglas

#Rights #Serenity #World

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 got to remember not to take for granted that person that's closest to you.
-- Michael Douglas

#People #Effort #Remember

Cigar smoking by it's very nature is much more reflective than interactive.
-- Michael Douglas

#Smoking #Cigar

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.
-- Michael Douglas

#Good Movie #Want #Actors