Kirk Douglas Quotes

I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.

Really a bad guy is more interesting, dramatically, than the good guy.

My mother once said, "A beggar must always give to another beggar that's worse off than he is." That has always stuck with me.

I never wanted to be in movies. In a sense, I'm still a failure because I wanted to be a star on the stage.

With John Wayne, we argued all the time and we made four pictures.

I think the election of [Barack] Obama was a great step to prove to the world that we believe that all men were created equal. I think it will show that we have humility.

I've played some good guys as well, in Spartacus, Paths of Glory and my favorite picture, Lonely Are the Brave, so I had a mixture of parts in my life.

I think that [Barack] Obama was elected because young people are starting to get interested in their country and I think that's a very healthy thing.

I have been trying to create a campaign to have our country make an apology for slavery, for the way that blacks were treated before the Civil War and after the Civil War.

The first time I had got an offer to come to Hollywood, I turned it down. I said, "No, I'm an actor of the stage.

Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.

You'll never see Spartacus in a (expletive) chair!

In order to achieve anything, you must be brave enough to fail.