Michael Kirk Douglas is an American actor and producer. He has gotten various honors, including two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the AFI Life Achievement Award.
Here are some of the Best Michael Douglas Quotes
‘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. – Michael Douglas
For an actor, its great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them. – 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
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
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? – Michael Douglas
I’ve always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different. – Michael Douglas
Learning patience was not an easy lesson. – Michael Douglas
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
Kids know. They know everything. I would err on the side of pretty much-sharing everything. – Michael Douglas
I am a Jew. Those are four words of pride. My Jewishness is as deep as my genes. – Michael Douglas
When you’ve accomplished a certain amount in your career, you’re not so focused on your ambitions. – Michael Douglas
Basketball is great; no one in Europe seems to believe just how close the spectators can sit to the players. – Michael Douglas
I tell my kids they are going to live to over 100. – Michael Douglas
A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place. – Michael Douglas
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. – Michael Douglas
What’s worth doing is worth doing for money. – Michael Douglas
Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow. – Michael Douglas
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
I haven’t played a lot of nice guys. – Michael Douglas
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
Liberace was a lovely guy. – Michael Douglas Quotes
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 Quotes
The thing with cancer is that you want to get it as early as you can. – 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? – Michael Douglas
Of course, it’s important to make mistakes, as long as you grow from them. – Michael Douglas
The history of second-generation actors isn’t great in our industry. – Michael Douglas
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. – Michael Douglas
In this whole digital age, where everything is so exposed, rather than trying to keep something private, you try to get out ahead of the curve and limit the amount of gossip. – Michael Douglas
To me, Bermuda is a real family spot. – Michael Douglas
Greed is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed will save the U.S.A.! – Michael Douglas
Cancer has shown me what family is. It showed me a love that I never knew really existed. – Michael Douglas
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
I went into rehab to save my marriage, but I wound up saving myself. – Michael Douglas
That’s why I’m such a big sports fan, with sports you can never guess what’s gonna happen. Most movies you get halfway through and you can kind of guess the ending. – Michael Douglas
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. – Michael Douglas
There’s nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life. – Michael Douglas
My daughter is a horseback rider, so I try to watch her ride; we take holidays together. – Michael Douglas
When you’re making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move. – Michael Douglas
I love kids, and I love having had this second chance to have a family. – Michael Douglas
It’s a phenomenon that I see with young actors – a lot of American speaking parts going to British actors. – Michael Douglas
I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while. – Michael Douglas
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. – Michael Douglas
During my first marriage, my career was the most important thing in my life. – Michael Douglas
Never knew how poor I was until I started making money. – Michael Douglas
There are not a lot of sons or daughters of actors who have made it. Hollywood is awash with failures. – Michael Douglas
Someone reminded me I once said, ‘Greed is good.’ Now it seems it’s legal. – Michael Douglas
Like my father, like most actors, I was a pretty ambitious guy. – Michael Douglas
Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes. – Michael Douglas
My father did 90-plus films. He was Spartacus! – Michael Douglas
I’m impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work. – Michael Douglas
50th of 50 Quotes By Michael Douglas
I don’t wish ill will on anybody. – Michael Douglas
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
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
Money itself isn’t lost or made. It’s simply transferred from one perception to another. – Michael Douglas
If a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is. – Michael Douglas
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
Our economy is increasingly dependent on the success and integrity of the financial markets. – Michael Douglas
We must unite to make nuclear weapons a horror of the past. – Michael Douglas
The quality of health care in Canada is excellent. – Michael Douglas
Cigar smoking by it’s very nature is much more reflective than interactive. – Michael Douglas
I don’t think tongue cancer is the best cancer for an actor. – Michael Douglas
Relationships are like bubbles – they’re fragile. – Michael Douglas
I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father. – Michael Douglas
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
Religion has certainly been shoved down my throat. – Michael Douglas
Cancer did not bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet. – Michael Douglas
I try not to dwell too much on a bad marriage. – Michael Douglas
It’s all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation. – Michael Douglas
Most of the stories I read are about my Hollywood pedigree. – Michael Douglas
Being single is pretty good. It’s a nice sense of irresponsibility. – Michael Douglas
I guess there are some women who like older men, but it’s a smaller group. – Michael Douglas
Players never die – they just try their luck at another table. – Michael Douglas
Serious is when they tell you, ‘You’ve got cancer.’ Cancer is serious, but then the rest of it is not. – Michael Douglas
Out there is nothing but possibilities. – Michael Douglas
I don’t ever do those kind of epic, huge, green-screen movies. – Michael Douglas
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
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. – Michael Douglas
I don’t look good in tights. I know that. – Michael Douglas
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. – Michael Douglas
I’ve just kind of been used to carrying movies. I look back and I’m just used to being in every single scene in a lot of pictures. – Michael Douglas
Of course, I feel blessed that I have a wife that is 25 years younger. – Michael Douglas
‘King of California’ was just, I thought, a really great, fresh, original kind of script. I loved the tone, the mix of tragedy, comedy, and drama, and that it was a good part. – Michael Douglas
Directing talent is very nebulous. You know, it’s not in front of you like an actor’s performance. – Michael Douglas
Every empire eventually falls. – Michael Douglas
Liberace was one of the biggest stars in America. He was a kind of a phenomenon. – Michael Douglas
The so-called ‘last golden age,’ in the 1970s, most of those movies were independent films. – Michael Douglas
I’ve always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be. – 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
Control is what gives you privacy. – 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
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
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. – Michael Douglas
Directors have so much else to do besides tell actors what to do. There are so many issues and problems. – Michael Douglas
Capitalism is part of our system, but it’s not for the faint of heart. – Michael Douglas
Actors, I have to say, most of the time, they elevate things; they don’t screw things up most of the time. – Michael Douglas
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. – Michael Douglas
I enjoy provocative things that are questionable. – Michael Douglas
I have hardly ever worked with the same director twice. But when you have worked with a director before, you understand his behaviour. – Michael Douglas
I’m a risk-taker. Most of my career has not been a joyful experience, but it has been challenging. I like dangers. – Michael Douglas
