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Michael Douglas

Profession : Actor

Birth : September 25, 1944

I had a great stepfather.

Michael Douglas

All the pictures I do are contemporary. I've sort of discovered I haven't really been into science fiction or period pictures. And so, in that vein, psychological thrillers play a big part.

Michael Douglas

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

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

Michael Douglas

'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' which my father had tried to get made for six, seven years, and I for four, was turned down by every studio. Every studio in the world had passed on it.

Michael Douglas

'Five Easy Pieces,' 'Easy Rider' - those are indie pictures; those were not studio pictures. They had relationships with studio distribution, but they were indies.

Michael Douglas

The studios basically, besides developing some material, their strength is distribution. Distribution in any other business is a cost that you incur. You know, in a trucking business, you eat it. In a film business, distribution is a profit center.

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

Every empire eventually falls.

Michael Douglas

'King of California' was just, I thought, a really great, fresh, original kind of script. I loved the tone, the mix of tragedy, comedy, and drama, and that it was a good part.

Michael Douglas

With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time with different brokers on 'Wall Street.' It helps get the rhythm of the piece and the tone, and how overplayed or underplayed it might be. That's also the magic of movies: You get to hang out and live these different lives.

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 look good in tights. I know that.

Michael Douglas