Michael Douglas
Learning patience was not an easy lesson.Collection: Patience
If a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is.Collection: Good
I don't smile a lot in my pictures. I'm always so... grim.Collection: Smile
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.Collection: Relationship
I don't think tongue cancer is the best cancer for an actor.
The quality of health care in Canada is excellent.
Paul Rudd is ripped.
My father did 90-plus films. He was Spartacus!
Like my father, like most actors, I was a pretty ambitious guy.
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.
There are not a lot of sons or daughters of actors who have made it. Hollywood is awash with failures.
During my first marriage, my career was the most important thing in my life.
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 thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.
My daughter is a horseback rider, so I try to watch her ride; we take holidays together.
I have nothing against her, and in fact I'm very fond of my first wife. But we should have ended that marriage eight or 10 years earlier.
It took me too long to realise that if you go to a marriage counsellor to resolve problems, it's in his interest to keep the marriage going.
I went into rehab to save my marriage, but I wound up saving myself.
Cancer has shown me what family is. It showed me a love that I never knew really existed.
To me, Bermuda is a real family spot.
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.
Of course it's important to make mistakes, as long as you grow from them.
The thing with cancer is that you want to get it as early as you can.
Liberace was a lovely guy.
I haven't played a lot of nice guys.
Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.
I've always worked hard and played hard, and I'm sure I'll be cleaning up my act in the future.
I think sometimes in relationships, ladies like having a man who takes care of them, nurtures them. If you can't find it in a man your own age, you find it in somebody who is older.
I tell my kids they are going to live to over 100.
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 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.
When you've accomplished a certain amount in your career, you're not so focused on your ambitions.
Kids know. They know everything. I would err on the side of pretty much sharing everything.
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?
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.
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.
'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.
I have hardly ever worked with the same director twice. But when you have worked with a director before, you understand his behavior.
I never really look at my movies.
The people who work in Wall Street still look up to Gordon Gekko. He's sort of a guru.
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.
I've always liked Tina Turner.
Capitalism is part of our system, but it's not for the faint of heart.
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.
Celebrity gets you access to world leaders.
I was undeclared. I was in my third year of school. They said you have to decide upon a major, and my father was an actor. My mother was an actress. So, I thought theater might be the way to go.
I had a great stepfather.
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 been dying to do a Marvel picture for so long.
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.