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Michael Douglas
American
Actor
Born:
Sep 25
,
1944
Actor
Father
Marriage
Me
People
You
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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.
Michael Douglas
You
People
Sometimes
Remember
Take For Granted
Strangers
Spend
More
Take
Terms
Making
Gotta
Impression
Than
Person
Efforts
Closest
Just
Us
Granted
I guess there are some women who like older men, but it's a smaller group.
Michael Douglas
Women
Men
Group
Older
Guess
Some
Smaller
Like
Who
Older Men
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.
Michael Douglas
Good
You
Responsibility
Live
Other
Considerate
Way
Possibly
Scene
Never
Leading
Know
Always
Been
Up
Just
Ladies
Want
Movie
Your
Actor
Competitive
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
You
Free
Liberated
Running
Seeing
About
Something
More
Excites
Feel
Like
Lions
Afraid
Them
If a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is.
Michael Douglas
Good
Be True
Too
True
Looks
Deal
My daughter is a horseback rider, so I try to watch her ride; we take holidays together.
Michael Douglas
Together
Ride
Try
Daughter
Horseback
Take
Holidays
Rider
Her
Watch
The arts are a celebration of life.
Michael Douglas
Life
Celebration
Arts
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
Time
You
Rain
Black
Live
Spent
Out
Broker
Detectives
Magic
Piece
Also
How
Lot
Wall
Wall Street
Get
Hang
Different
Rhythm
Movies
Might
Helps
Lives
Street
Homicide
Tone
People are goofy about the movie business, so you end up counting on friends you knew before you were successful. It is harder to make new friends because you are a little more cautious.
Michael Douglas
You
Business
People
Before
About
More
Knew
Counting
New
Goofy
Make
Because
New Friends
Were
Cautious
End
Up
Friends
Movie
Movie Business
Little
Successful
Harder
When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.
Michael Douglas
You
Business
Passion
Hurts
Out
Someone
Calculated
Pictures
Calls
Making
Heartfelt
Move
Them
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
Best
Good
Own
Good Movies
About
Concerned
Lot
Get
Going
Rewrite
Want
Movie
Movies
Far
Even
Actor
Serve
Image
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.
Michael Douglas
Happiness
Love
Morning
Me
You
Happy
Wake Up
Innocence
Kids
Find
See
About
No Question
Absolute
Do You Know
Know
Pieces
Question
Wake
Up
Unequivocal
Little
Them
My dad was a movie star. Having that name was good and bad. People think it's a silver spoon. It's not.
Michael Douglas
Good
People
Bad People
Think
Bad
Silver
Silver Spoon
Having
Name
Spoon
Movie
Movie Star
Good And Bad
Dad
Star
I don't smile a lot in my pictures. I'm always so... grim.
Michael Douglas
Smile
Pictures
Always
Lot
Grim
Sometimes art imitates life.
Michael Douglas
Life
Art
Sometimes
Imitates
Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that's nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it's ignored, it withers.
Michael Douglas
Marriage
Else
Nurtured
Like
Prospers
Anything
Anything Else
Lovely
Ignored
Grows
Learning patience was not an easy lesson.
Michael Douglas
Patience
Learning
Lesson
Easy
I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different.
Michael Douglas
Kind
Tried
Wings
Always
Different
Actor
Things
Stretch
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
Me
Relationship
Women
Young
Older
Difficult
Meet
Benefit
Some
Crowd
Envisioned
Know
Because
Young Women
Much
Career
There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.
Michael Douglas
Life
Family
Nothing
Crisis
Divorce
Re-Evaluate
Like
Force
His
Person
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
Say
Most
Up
Screw
Actor
Elevate
Things
The message from national security experts and citizens around the world is clear: The only way to eliminate the global nuclear danger is to eliminate all nuclear weapons.
Michael Douglas
World
National
Way
Danger
Security
Citizens
Weapons
Only
Clear
Global
Message
Around
National Security
Experts
Nuclear
Eliminate
Nuclear Weapons
Cancer didn't bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet.
Michael Douglas
Me
Cancer
Brought
Knees
Feet
Bring
Control is what gives you privacy.
Michael Douglas
You
Privacy
Control
Gives
My movies are usually about stripping off the makeup, getting down to the skeleton.
Michael Douglas
Down
Stripping
About
Makeup
Off
Getting
Skeleton
Movies
Liberace was one of the biggest stars in America. He was a kind of a phenomenon.
Michael Douglas
Stars
Liberace
Kind
He
America
Biggest
Phenomenon
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