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

Capitalism is part of our system, but it's not for the faint of heart. — Michael Douglas

Out there is nothing but possibilities. — Michael Douglas

Directors have so much else to do besides tell actors what to do. There are so many issues and problems. — Michael Douglas

I tell my kids they are going to live to over 100. — Michael Douglas

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

Of course it's important to make mistakes, as long as you grow from them. — Michael Douglas

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

Cancer has shown me what family is. It showed me a love that I never knew really existed. — Michael Douglas

I've always liked Tina Turner. — Michael Douglas

My daughter is a horseback rider, so I try to watch her ride; we take holidays together. — Michael Douglas

Retiring gives the impression that you're relieved that your job is over. — 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 'Wall Street,' Charlie Sheen carried that movie. — Michael Douglas

When I go on a holiday to a tropical place, I'll spray tan before I go. — Michael Douglas

Of course I feel blessed that I have a wife that is 25 years younger. — Michael Douglas

Own who you are," he commanded. "And don't apologize. Do you understand? Own it or it
will own you. — Penelope Douglas

When you are a celebrity, nothing remains secret for very long. — Michael Douglas

I haven't played a lot of nice guys. — Michael Douglas

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

Directing talent is very nebulous. You know, it's not in front of you like an actor's performance. — Michael Douglas

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

Paul Rudd is ripped. — Michael Douglas

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. — 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

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

Religion has certainly been shoved down my throat. — Michael Douglas

When you've accomplished a certain amount in your career, you're not so focused on your ambitions. — 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

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

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

I don't ever do those kind of epic, huge, green-screen movies. — Michael Douglas

My father did 90-plus films. He was Spartacus! — Michael Douglas

My marriage and my families come certainly before my career. — Michael Douglas

Most of the stories I read are about my Hollywood pedigree. — Michael Douglas

I love kids, and I love having had this second chance to have a family. — Michael Douglas

Liberace was a lovely guy. — Michael Douglas

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

Learning patience was not an easy lesson. — Michael Douglas

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

Never knew how poor I was until I started making money. — Michael Douglas

I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be. — Michael Douglas

Kids know. They know everything. I would err on the side of pretty much sharing everything. — Michael Douglas

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

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

I think I would go for a Michael Phelps kind of guy. — Gabby Douglas

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

Liberace was one of the biggest stars in America. He was a kind of a phenomenon. — Michael Douglas

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

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

The people who work in Wall Street still look up to Gordon Gekko. He's sort of a guru. — Michael Douglas

I never really look at my movies. — Michael Douglas

The quality of health care in Canada is excellent. — Michael Douglas

Celebrity gets you access to world leaders. — Michael Douglas

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

For an actor, it's great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them. — Michael Douglas

I enjoy provocative things that are questionable. — Michael Douglas

I was there the night John Lennon was shot, three blocks away. It left a lasting impression on me. — Michael Douglas

Control is what gives you privacy. — Michael Douglas

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. — 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

I don't look good in tights. I know that. — 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

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

It's just you, Little Monster. Own it or it will own you. — Penelope 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

The arts are a celebration of life. — Michael Douglas

I come from a tough stock. — Michael Douglas

'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

Money never sleeps, pal — Michael Douglas

I'm a risk-taker. Most of my career has not been a joyful experience, but it has been challenging. I like the dangers. — Michael Douglas

There are not a lot of sons or daughters of actors who have made it. Hollywood is awash with failures. — Michael Douglas

I'm an optimistic guy. — 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

I've been dying to do a Marvel picture for so long. — Michael Douglas

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

I don't smile a lot in my pictures. I'm always so ... grim. — Michael Douglas

To me, Bermuda is a real family spot. — Michael Douglas

I guess there are some women who like older men, but it's a smaller group. — Michael Douglas

I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father. — Michael Douglas

he didn't murder Charles Duchamp, and he didn't murder Michael Decker. His — Douglas Preston

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

I have hardly ever worked with the same director twice. But when you have worked with a director before, you understand his behavior. — Michael Douglas

I have nothing against her, and in fact I'm very fond of my first wife. But we should have ended that marriage eight or 10 years earlier. — Michael Douglas

Lunch? You gotta be kidding. Lunch is for wimps. — Michael Douglas

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

I've always worked hard and played hard, and I'm sure I'll be cleaning up my act in the future. — Michael Douglas

I don't think tongue cancer is the best cancer for an actor. — Michael Douglas

On 'Ant-Man', I took a rubber stamp from the office of Hank Pym, who's played by Michael Douglas. — Evangeline Lilly

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

The thing with cancer is that you want to get it as early as you can. — Michael Douglas

Cancer didn't bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet. — Michael Douglas

Like my father, like most actors, I was a pretty ambitious guy. — Michael Douglas

There are monsters in the world. They're called human beings. - Michael Diamond, from The Life Beyond — Douglas Clegg

If a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is. — Michael Douglas

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

My mother is Bermudan, so I had a lot of memories when I was a kid, used to go down to Bermuda a lot. — Michael Douglas