Michael Douglas Quotes

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Michael Douglas

Profession : Actor

Birth : September 25, 1944

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

Michael Douglas

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

Michael Douglas

The quality of health care in Canada is excellent.

Michael Douglas

Paul Rudd is ripped.

Michael Douglas

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

Michael Douglas

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

Michael Douglas

Early on, someone had told me, 'You know, the camera can always tell when you're lying.' And, Jesus, that intimidated me. 'The camera can always tell? How am I going to do this?' Until one day I thought, 'Wait a minute, acting is lying. Acting is all about lying.'

Michael Douglas

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

Michael Douglas

During my first marriage, my career was the most important thing in my life.

Michael Douglas

My own parents divorced when I was six. I was raised with my brother Joel by our mother on the East Coast, visiting my father in Los Angeles during holidays. When your parents are divorced, you don't know anything else, do you?

Michael Douglas

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

Michael Douglas

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

Michael Douglas

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

Michael Douglas

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

Michael Douglas