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Kirk Douglas Quotes

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Virtue is not photogenic  (Kirk Douglas Quotes) I’m a loner clear down deep to my very guts  (Kirk Douglas Quotes) We look for wine when we should be hunting bread  (Kirk Douglas Quotes) Really a bad guy is more interesting, dramatically, than the good guy  (Kirk Douglas Quotes) I think that [Barack] Obama was elected because young people are starting to get interested in their country and I think that’s a very healthy thing.  (Kirk Douglas Quotes) Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn’t want me now. That’s all  (Kirk Douglas Quotes) I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is play Spider Solitaire. And I don’t have a cell phone  (Kirk Douglas Quotes) I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father’s best friends were Italians  (Kirk Douglas Quotes) 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 Quotes) What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder  (Kirk Douglas Quotes) Life is like a B-picture script. It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I’d turn it down  (Kirk Douglas Quotes) When you get to my age, you find that most of your dear friends are gone  (Kirk Douglas Quotes) I have been trying to create a campaign to have our country make an apology for slavery, for the way that blacks were treated before the Civil War and after the Civil War.  (Kirk Douglas Quotes) 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.  (Kirk Douglas Quotes) I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I’ve had lots of women in my life.  (Kirk Douglas Quotes) I was living in a terrible time when people were being accused of being communists, and they attacked the movie industry, especially the writers. People couldn’t work if they were on the blacklist. The studios banned them. It was the most onerous period in movie history. I don’t think we have ever had a period so dark as that.  (Kirk Douglas Quotes) Being second generation in Hollywood is complicated: Success is expected, and yet the track record of the second generation is not great. Only a small group of us, like Jane Fonda, have succeeded.  (Kirk Douglas Quotes) I have always been grateful that my Russian mother and father came to this country to give me a better chance, and I have had a better chance.  (Kirk Douglas Quotes) Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that’s what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.  (Kirk Douglas Quotes) Cancer does give you a new rejuvenation. I know what it’s like to be down. I lost a couple of good friends - Larry Hagman and Nick Ashford - who had the same type of cancer that I did, and that makes you think.  (Kirk Douglas Quotes) I studied Judaism a lot. I studied religion in general, and I have never imposed my Judaism on my kids. They are what they want to be. I think... you must care for others. That’s the correct religion, I think.  (Kirk Douglas Quotes) I have a great respect for actors like Clint Eastwood, who’s a wonderful director. I think two pictures that I directed were not successful, so I decided not to make any more.  (Kirk Douglas Quotes) I was going to play in First Blood, but I suggested to changing it and I dropped out. I said to [Silvester] Stallone, ‘You know, I almost stopped you from making millions of dollars,’ because in my suggestion, I killed his character at the end of the picture .  (Kirk Douglas Quotes) When you get old the worst thing is you lose so many friends. Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne. People who I loved to work with.  (Kirk Douglas Quotes) God bless Dad, he came to every one of my shows. I was bad, and I had horrible stage fright. My dad was so relieved - he’d say, ‘You were terrible; this kid is not going to be an actor.’ Finally, I did a play and he said, ‘Son - you were really good.’  (Kirk Douglas Quotes) I think the election of [Barack] Obama was a great step to prove to the world that we believe that all men were created equal. I think it will show that we have humility.  (Kirk Douglas Quotes) My children didn’t have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty  (Kirk Douglas Quotes) When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back  (Kirk Douglas Quotes) The best wine comes from home, wherever it is  (Kirk Douglas Quotes) If I have to speak in public, I am terrified  (Kirk Douglas Quotes)
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