211 Quotes by Michael Douglas

With little knowledge of what it meant to be a Jew, I found myself passionately defending the Jewish people. Now, half a century later, I have to defend my son. Anti-Semitism, I’ve seen, is like a disease that goes dormant, flaring up with the next political trigger.

Everything’s so repressive now – it’s the No generation. You can’t do anything, you can’t eat anything, you have to abstain.

It’s a phenomenon that I see with young actors – a lot of American speaking parts going to British actors.

Suddenly you’ve worked yourself up to the top of the pecking order and you say to yourself, okay, this is going to be fun.

You have to make entertaining movies. But like a good meal, it’s nice to have a little food for thought after you walk out of the theater rather than just wiling away a couple of hours.

Even when you’re acting with a producing hat, when you’re in every scene, you’re really conscious of trying to make everybody as good as they are, because ultimately you’re trying to make the best movie possible.

I’ve always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different.

It’s difficult for me to meet women because my crowd is much older. I know that for some of the young women I do meet, a relationship with me can be envisioned as a benefit to their career.

My entire career is contemporary based, not by choice, but just by character. So, all the movies I’ve done, except for one in 40 years, are contemporary. But I never did an effects movie. So, I’m also a producer and I was really curious about how this whole thing went together.