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.”

“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 no...”

“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.”

“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?”

“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 h...”

“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.”

“In 'Wall Street,' Charlie Sheen carried that movie.”

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

“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 alwa...”

“'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' which my father had tried to get made for six, seven years, and I for four, was turned down by every studio. Every studio in the world had passed on it.”

“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. The...”

“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 aft...”

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

“I grew up on the East Coast and was going to go to an Ivy League School, but at the last minute I decided to be a hippy. It was the protest movements on the war, peace movements were going o...”

“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,...”

“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.”

“Capitalism is part of our system, but it's not for the faint of heart.”

“The studios basically, besides developing some material, their strength is distribution. Distribution in any other business is a cost that you incur. You know, in a trucking business, you ea...”

“Our economy is increasingly dependent on the success and integrity of the financial markets.”

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