Kirk Douglas Quotes - Page 3

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• Since my stroke, I have begun to see so many miracles all around me. I look out of the window in my room: verdant grass, silver-tipped oak leaves, tall palm trees gentle swaying as they reach to the sky, masses and masses of roses. All colors, so many shapes, exquisite fragrances.

  Kirk Douglas

  Sky, Color, Rose

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• If I have to speak in public, I am terrified.

  Kirk Douglas

  Speak, Terrified, Ifs

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• I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.

  Kirk Douglas

  Desire, Actors, Film

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• I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is play Spider Solitaire. And I don't have a cell phone.

  Kirk Douglas

  Phones, Cells, Play

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• 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.

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• The best wine comes from home, wherever it is.

  Kirk Douglas

  Home, Wine, Best Wine

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• Love has more depth as you get older.

  Kirk Douglas

  Depth

  "Kirk Douglas: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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

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• I remember little things that break my heart. We were coming out of Michael's house one day, and he noticed my shoelaces were undone. He bent down and tied them. I almost cried. To me, it was such a gesture of love.

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  Love, Dream, Heart

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

  Kirk Douglas

  Father, Knows

  Interview with Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. June 1, 1969.

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• 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.

  Kirk Douglas

  Stars, Stage, Wanted

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

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• Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.

  Kirk Douglas

  Funny, Humorous, Italian

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• "Hail to the Chief" was played, and the President got up and made a gracious opening remark. "I've been in this office for six years, and yet every time I hear that music, I turn around wondering who they're playing it for."

  Kirk Douglas

  Funny, Years, Office

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• 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.

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

  Kirk Douglas

  Mean, Doe, Want

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• I went to Hollywood to test for Martha Ivers and I thought I was going to play the part that Van Heflin played.But they wanted me to play the part of Barbara Stanwyck's husband, so I played that. Then when I finished the movie, I went back to Broadway and did another flop.

  Kirk Douglas

  Husband, Play, Hollywood

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty.

  Kirk Douglas

  Children, Poverty, Advantage

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• Acting is a youthful profession.

  Kirk Douglas

  Acting, Profession

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• I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.

  Kirk Douglas

  Boys, Bad Boy

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• 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.

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