American - Actor | December 9, 1916 -
You know, sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say - you're bright! They're actually surprised I might be bright.
Kirk Douglas
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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.
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No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.
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Fifteen years ago, I suffered a stroke, which caused me to lose my speech. Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back? I work with a speech therapist twice a week.
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Sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say, 'You're bright!' They're actually surprised I might be bright.
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I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor.
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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'.
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I think religion has caused so much catastrophe in the world.
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I was not a very good Jew. I never practised what Judaism tells you to do, to teach your kids all about Judaism.
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I'm an actor; I have made my living by acting, and I almost think I owe it to the public to express my feelings and not as a character on a screen but as myself.
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I have studied religion, and I have concluded that there is some power. We don't understand it.
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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.
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