I went to Hollywood to test for Martha Ivers and I thought I was going to play the part that Van Heflin… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
It's tough to make a movie about movies... We're all too close to it. But 'The Bad and the Beautiful' was very… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
All my life, I have taken inventory at intervals. For example, when I became a movie actor and suddenly I had to… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be in movies. In a sense, I'm still a failure because I wanted to be a star on… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
I bought the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I paid to have it made into a play and I played… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
I have been an actor for most of my life. When I started out, I didn't think about anything except what was… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
Life is like a B-picture script. It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity. — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When you get to my age, you find that most of your dear friends are gone. — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
