Michael Douglas Quotes

I don't know if likeable, pleasant characters have enough conflict for me to want to do them. I admire those people, but I've never been that kind of screen presence who can do nothing. I need to do something.

Michael Douglas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 25, 1944

Topics

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On paper, swearing takes on a different attitude. It can make you sound very angry when you use it a lot.

Joanna Coles

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Sometimes bad things happen to good people. We don't know the meaning of all things, but we know God loves His children! And because He loves us, He will never desert us.

John Bytheway

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When I sit down to talk to men's magazines, there's a certain character that I play. She's not fully fleshed out - she doesn't have her own name - but she shows up to do men's-magazine interviews.

Megan Fox

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I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.

Matthew Fox

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Every star has that certain something that stands out and compels us to notice them.

Maureen O'Hara

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The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.

John Strachan

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I always try to think of positive things to say about the people I portray, as it's more helpful for me.

Sophie Okonedo

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When I first became aware of music, it was probably the same way a lot of people do - even more suburban or rural people - from my older brothers playing music.

Mike D

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The great gift of 'Incarceration Nations' is that, by introducing a wide range of approaches to crime, punishment, and questions of justice in diverse countries - Rwanda, South Africa, Brazil, Jamaica, Uganda, Singapore, Australia and Norway - it forces us to face the reality that American-style punishment has been chosen.

Michelle Alexander

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Most of the most successful films Blumhouse has made have been rejected by everyone else. No one wanted to make 'Get Out.' Nobody. Nobody wanted to make 'The Purge.' I think it was floating around for three years before it came to us. Nobody wanted to make 'The Gift,' when it was a script called 'Weirdo.'

Jason Blum

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It's just cool to me that Bon Jovi knows my name!

Josh Hopkins

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My mom and dad always tried to make Christmas special for us. We were poor, but it's funny because we had no idea.

Johnny Mathis

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