When you've accomplished a certain amount in your career, you're not so focused on your ambitions. — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
Serious is when they tell you, 'You've got cancer.' Cancer is serious, but then the rest of it is not. — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
Directing talent is very nebulous. You know, it's not in front of you like an actor's performance. — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe? — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
Retiring gives the impression that you're relieved that your job is over. — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
Of course it's important to make mistakes, as long as you grow from them. — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
People are goofy about the movie business, so you end up counting on friends you knew before you were successful. It is… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
Women are now very comfortable to have babies into their late 30s. You can be a father in your 50s. I'm not… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
There is something about seeing rhinos and lions running free that excites you. It's not that you feel afraid; it's more like… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
My own parents divorced when I was six. I was raised with my brother Joel by our mother on the East Coast,… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
The studios basically, besides developing some material, their strength is distribution. Distribution in any other business is a cost that you incur.… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
Early on, someone had told me, 'You know, the camera can always tell when you're lying.' And, Jesus, that intimidated me. 'The… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
Do you know what absolute happiness is? For me, it is to wake up my kids in the morning - these little… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
I think sometimes in relationships, ladies like having a man who takes care of them, nurtures them. If you can't find it… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time with different brokers… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
The thing with cancer is that you want to get it as early as you can. — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
I have hardly ever worked with the same director twice. But when you have worked with a director before, you understand his… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
I was undeclared. I was in my third year of school. They said you have to decide upon a major, and my… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
It took me too long to realise that if you go to a marriage counsellor to resolve problems, it's in his interest… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
I think the quality of television, given the amount of time you have, how short you have, is proportionally so much better… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
I do think of myself as a bit of a loner, a bit of an independent. I'm one of those people who,… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
You just have to know what your responsibility is to the movie, and live up to that, and be considerate of the… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
Directors have so much else to do besides tell actors what to do. There are so many issues and problems. — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
I've gotten burnt the last few years on a couple of little independent films where you get paid nothing, you work your ass off,… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
With little knowledge of what it meant to be a Jew, I found myself passionately defending the Jewish people. Now, half a century later,… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
When you've accomplished a certain amount in your career, you're not so focused on your ambitions. — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I love kids, and I love having had this second chance to have a family. — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
I guess there are some women who like older men, but it's a smaller group. — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
People are goofy about the movie business, so you end up counting on friends you knew before you were successful. It is harder to… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
I don't know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mean how long is that going to… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
