Latest Kirk Douglas Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  Kirk Douglas

  Mother, Giving, Stuck

• Know what a loner is? He's a born cripple. He's a cripple because the only person he can live with is himself. It's his life, the way he wants to live. It's all for him.

  Kirk Douglas

  Loner, Want, Way

  "Fictional character: Jack Burns". "Lonely Are the Brave", www.imdb.com. 1962.

• I'm a loner clear down deep to my guts.

  Kirk Douglas

  Loner, Clear, Guts

  "Fictional chaarcter: Jack Burns". "Lonely Are the Brave", www.imdb.com. 1962.

• We look for wine when we should be hunting bread.

  Kirk Douglas

  Wine, Hunting, Looks

  "Celebrating 30 Years Of 'Fresh Air': The Kirk Douglas Interview". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.kirkdouglas.com. August 28, 2017.

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

  Kirk Douglas

  Chairs, Spartacus, Expletives

• 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.

  Kirk Douglas

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• If I can get enough signatures, to present an apology to slavery, I will present it to the President. The House of Representatives has already passed the resolution for the apology, but it has to pass the Senate. I think, in spite of all our problems, I think we're in the right direction.

  Kirk Douglas

  Apology, Thinking, House

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

• 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.

  Kirk Douglas

  Believe, Humility, Men

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• 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.

  Kirk Douglas

  Country, War, Apology

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

• I'm concerned that the world is a mess. That's why when I wrote my last book, Let's Face It, I dedicated it to the younger generation because, let's face it, the world is in a mess. Right now, the young people will inherit that mess. I think we have to do everything we can.

  Kirk Douglas

  Book, Thinking, People

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

• I have always been grateful that my Russian mother and father came to this country to give me a better chance, and I have had a better chance.

  Kirk Douglas

  Mother, Country, Father

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

• Michael [Douglas] is, I think, a great actor. He's made some very interesting pictures. When he was going to college, I was very proud of him, but when he said, 'Dad, I want to be in a play,' he had a bit part. I went to see it and Michael said, 'Dad, how was I?' I said, 'You were terrible.' I thought he would go on to be a lawyer and in three months, he was in another play and I went and, I must admit, he was great. I think he has been good in everything he's done.

  Kirk Douglas

  Dad, Thinking, College

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• Michael [Douglas] was just leaving the TV series The Streets of San Francisco and he said, 'Dad, let me try it.' I thought, 'Well, if I couldn't make it...' So, I gave it to him and he got the money, the director and the cast. The biggest disappointment for me, I always wanted to play McMurphy. They got a young actor, Jack Nicholson. I thought, 'Oh God. He will be terrible.' Then I saw the picture and, of course, he was great in it! That was my biggest disappointment that turned out to be one of the things I'm most proud of because my son Michael did it. I couldn't do it, but Michael did it.

  Kirk Douglas

  Dad, Disappointment, Son

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• I bought the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I paid to have it made into a play and I played in it for six months. I came back and I tried to make it into a movie, without success.

  Kirk Douglas

  Book, Play, Six Months

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

• I felt [It Runs in the Family] it was a picture that, after I'm gone, my family would like to see it. It was a wonderful mixture of people in my family.

  Kirk Douglas

  Running, People, Gone

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• I have a great respect for actors like Clint Eastwood, who's a wonderful director. I think two pictures that I directed were not successful, so I decided not to make any more.

  Kirk Douglas

  Successful, Thinking, Two

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

• I directed two films, not very successfully, and after that, I went back to being an actor and a producer.

  Kirk Douglas

  Two, Actors, Film

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

• I was going to play in First Blood, but I suggested to changing it and I dropped out. I said to [Silvester] Stallone, 'You know, I almost stopped you from making millions of dollars,' because in my suggestion, I killed his character at the end of the picture .

  Kirk Douglas

  Character, Blood, Play

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

• When you get to my age, you find that most of your dear friends are gone.

  Kirk Douglas

  Age, Gone, Dear Friend

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

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

  Kirk Douglas

  Four, Wayne, Made

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

• When you get old the worst thing is you lose so many friends. Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne. People who I loved to work with.

  Kirk Douglas

  People, Wayne, Lancaster

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• When I made Spartacus during the McCarthy Era, we were losing our freedom. It was an awful, awful way. McCarthy saw Communists everywhere, in every level of government and they concentrated on Hollywood and especially on Hollywood writers.

  Kirk Douglas

  Government, Hollywood, Levels

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

• When I produced Spartacus, the writer was Dalton Trumbo, who spent a year in jail because he would not answer McCarthy's questions about other people. He submitted the picture under the false name of Sam Jackson.

  Kirk Douglas

  Years, Names, Jail

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

• 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.

  Kirk Douglas

  Lonely, Guy, Brave

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

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

  Kirk Douglas

  Interesting, Guy, Good Guy

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.