Michael Douglas Quotes

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.

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.

Being single is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility.

Out there is nothing but possibilities.

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

Players never die - they just try their luck at another table.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Cancer did not bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet.

Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.

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.

I dont know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mean how long is that going to last?

The one thing that men and women have in common - they both like the company of men.

When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.

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.

We must unite to make nuclear weapons a horror of the past.

Relationships are like bubbles – they’re fragile.

What's worth doing is worth doing for money.

Cigar smoking by it's very nature is much more reflective than interactive.

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.

It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation.

There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.

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.

Someone reminded me I once said, 'Greed is good.' Now it seems it's legal.

Money itself isn’t lost or made. It’s simply transferred from one perception to another.

Every empire eventually falls.

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.

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.

Greed is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed will save the U.S.A.!

Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.

For an actor, its great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them.

It's a phenomenon that I see with young actors - a lot of American speaking parts going to British actors.

I am a Jew. Those are four words of pride. My Jewishness is as deep as my genes.

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.

I went into rehab to save my marriage, but I wound up saving myself.

Never knew how poor I was until I started making money.

I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different.

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

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.

Basketball is great; no one in Europe seems to believe just how close the spectators can sit to the players.

The history of second-generation actors isn't great in our industry.

Since Catherine [Zeta-Jones] and I got together, I've cut back dramatically. My priorities changed, and I still love acting and all that, but not as much as I love watching my two kids grow up.

I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.

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.

My brain cannot conceive how old my body is.

Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that's nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it's ignored, it withers.

I try not to dwell too much on a bad marriage.

My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and their marriage didn't last very long.

My movies are usually about stripping off the makeup, getting down to the skeleton.

My marriage and my families come certainly before my career.