American - Actor | September 25, 1944 -
The people who work in Wall Street still look up to Gordon Gekko. He's sort of a guru.
Michael Douglas
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When I was working on pictures with my father, there were a couple leading ladies to whom I wish I'd expressed how I felt rather than being too cool or too shy.
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I've always liked Tina Turner.
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Capitalism is part of our system, but it's not for the faint of heart.
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The Cold War's end pushed disarmament down most leaders' agendas. It's a sophisticated issue, which I think is one reason why it is not so hands-on to many people. It's not visceral. It's not like a starving child.
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Celebrity gets you access to world leaders.
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I was undeclared. I was in my third year of school. They said you have to decide upon a major, and my father was an actor. My mother was an actress. So, I thought theater might be the way to go.
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I had a great stepfather.
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All the pictures I do are contemporary. I've sort of discovered I haven't really been into science fiction or period pictures. And so, in that vein, psychological thrillers play a big part.
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I think the quality of television, given the amount of time you have, how short you have, is proportionally so much better than most movies.
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The so-called 'last golden age,' in the 1970s, most of those movies were independent films.
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'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' which my father had tried to get made for six, seven years, and I for four, was turned down by every studio. Every studio in the world had passed on it.
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