Kirk Douglas

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

— 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…

— Kirk Douglas

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

— 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.…

— 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.…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Kirk Douglas

It seems as if only now I really know who I am. My strengths, my weaknesses, my jealousiesits as if all of…

— Kirk Douglas

You have not learned to live until you have learned to give

— Kirk Douglas

Virtue is not photogenic, so I liked playing bad guys. But, whenever I played a bad guy, I tried to find something…

— Kirk Douglas

I directed two films, not very successfully, and after that, I went back to being an actor and a producer.

— Kirk Douglas

The best wine comes from home, wherever it is.

— Kirk Douglas

I'm an actor; I have made my living by acting, and I almost think I owe it to the public to express…

— Kirk Douglas

The first time I had got an offer to come to Hollywood, I turned it down. I said, "No, I'm an actor…

— Kirk Douglas

Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive.

— Kirk Douglas

People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so…

— Kirk Douglas

“Life is like a B-picture script.”

— Kirk Douglas