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Kirk Douglas (Actor)

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

— Kirk Douglas you

I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.

— Kirk Douglas life

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 smile

If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.

— Kirk Douglas man

The learning process continues until the day you die.

— Kirk Douglas learning

I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.

— Kirk Douglas body

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

— Kirk Douglas children

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 day

My four sons all knew I was a Jew, but they were allowed to be whatever they wanted to be. The only thing important to me was that they be good people who help other people, because all religion should try to make you a better person and a more caring person. Whenever religion does that for you, it's a good religion.

— Kirk Douglas religion

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 good

People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed.

— Kirk Douglas think

When I first came to Hollywood, the blacklist was just starting, and they were having hearings in Washington. What most people don't know is the judge of these hearings himself was later convicted of misappropriation. 'Spartacus' helped break the blacklist, because Spartacus was a real character.

— Kirk Douglas art

All my life, I have taken inventory at intervals. For example, when I became a movie actor and suddenly I had to deal with fame, money and playing so many roles, I lost myself. I said, 'Who am I?' And I wrote my first book to deal with that, 'The Ragman's Son.'

— Kirk Douglas life

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 friends

My first job was on Broadway. Then I went into the Navy. When I came out of the Navy, I went back to Broadway and a friend of mine, Lauren Bacall, was in Hollywood filming with Humphrey Bogart. She told one of her producers I was great in my play, and he saw it and cast me in 'The Strange Love of Martha Ivers'.

— Kirk Douglas art

You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.

— Kirk Douglas philosophy

Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.

— Kirk Douglas want

Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.

— Kirk Douglas talent

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

— Kirk Douglas poverty

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 desire

Love has more depth as you get older.

— Kirk Douglas you

What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder.

— Kirk Douglas parents

Acting is a youthful profession.

— Kirk Douglas youth

I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor.

— Kirk Douglas art

I didn't think I was so tough until I did 'Champion'; then I was a tough guy.

— Kirk Douglas think

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