Audience Quote by Kirk Douglas

“Virtue is not photogenic, so I liked playing bad guys. But, whenever I played a bad guy, I tried to find something good in him, and that kept my contact with the audience.”

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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…

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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.

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

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

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