Character Quotes by Kirk Douglas

If I can get enough signatures, to present an apology to slavery, I will present it to the President. The House of Representatives has…

— Kirk Douglas

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…

— Kirk Douglas

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

— Kirk Douglas

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…

— Kirk Douglas

When you have a stroke, you must talk slowly to be understood, and I've discovered that when I talk slowly, people listen. They think…

— Kirk Douglas

Love has more depth as you get older.

— Kirk Douglas

On a crowded bus in Israel, a mother was speaking to her son in Yiddish. An Israeli woman reprimanded her. "You should be speaking…

— Kirk Douglas

You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.

— Kirk Douglas

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…

— Kirk Douglas

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

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

— Kirk Douglas

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

— Kirk Douglas

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

— Kirk Douglas

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

— Kirk Douglas

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…

— Kirk Douglas