Michael Douglas Quotes

There are not a lot of sons or daughters of actors who have made it. Hollywood is awash with failures.

Michael Douglas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HollywoodWhoDaughtersSonsMade

People would come to me and say, 'Jet, your Kung Fu is pretty good, do you want to be an action star when you grow up?' At 17, I was given the script and I went to make the movie.

Jet Li

GoodPeopleMeActionGrowYou

Teachers, social workers, public lawyers who bring companies to justice, government accountants who try to make sure money is spent as it should be - all need at least four years of college.

Robert Reich

JusticeMoneyGovernmentCollegeTry

The transition from unknown to known-in-publishing has been empowering but also challenging. It's an honor to know that people actually want to know what I think about certain issues, but I also have to be careful about what I say or, rather, how I say it. The Internet is forever, y'all.

Angie Thomas

PeopleThinkInternetHonorKnow

I think people will always love a heavy Sabbath riff because it's fundamental to rock.

Stone Gossard

LovePeopleThinkRockWillAlways

Whenever you exclude God and the value system that He represents out of the equation of a life, of a family, or a culture, you create a spiritual vacuum. Nature abhors a vacuum. It must be filled with something.

Tony Evans

LifeFamilyNatureGodCultureYou

There's no such thing as lack of confidence. You either have it or you don't.

Rob Andrew

ConfidenceYouEitherLackThing

I have two sisters that are directors: one's in documentary, one's in film. My mother was a writer and a painter, so I've been surrounded since childhood by dynamic women and female voices in arts.

Joseph Fiennes

MotherWomenChildhoodTwoArts

I don't know what to do with myself between films. I end up doing unhealthy things like shopping or drinking. I'm pretty schizophrenic about it.

Johnny Galecki

MyselfShoppingEndDoingKnowUp

Trade creates jobs and lifts people out of poverty. And when that happens, societies stabilize and grow. And there is nothing like a stable society to fight terrorism and strengthen democracy, freedom and rule of law.

Dennis Hastert

FreedomFightPeopleLawDemocracy

To an extreme athlete, there's a certain appeal to doing extreme things - seeking the most extreme physical challenges in some of the most extreme climates in the world. Testing and expanding the limits of human endurance is kind of my thing.

Dean Karnazes

ChallengesWorldLimitsDoingKind

It's always a little nerve-wracking to do a love scene, more than anything because it's just awkward.

Annie Parisse

LoveMoreAlwaysAnythingAwkward

The question now afloat in the world respecting 'things as they are' is the most interesting that can be presented to the human mind. While one party pleads for reformation and change, the other extols in the warmest terms the existing constitution of society.

William Godwin

ChangeMindWorldSocietyPartyNow

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