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Kirk Douglas Inspirational Quotes (54)

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Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.
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When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.
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On a crowded bus in Israel, a mother was speaking to her son in Yiddish. An Israeli woman reprimanded her. You should be speaking Hebrew. Why are you talking to him in Yiddish? The mother answered, I don't want he should forget he's a Jew.
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I have a great respect for actors like Clint Eastwood, who's a wonderful director. I think two pictures that I directed were not successful, so I decided not to make any more.
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I've played some good guys as well, in Spartacus, Paths of Glory and my favorite picture, Lonely Are the Brave, so I had a mixture of parts in my life.
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I remember little things that break my heart. We were coming out of Michael's house one day, and he noticed my shoelaces were undone. He bent down and tied them. I almost cried. To me, it was such a gesture of love.
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I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.
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I bought the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I paid to have it made into a play and I played in it for six months. I came back and I tried to make it into a movie, without success.
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Being seventy has its advantages. I was outspoken before, but now what have I got to keep quiet about?
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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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If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.
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Hail to the Chief was played, and the President got up and made a gracious opening remark. I've been in this office for six years, and yet every time I hear that music, I turn around wondering who they're playing it for.
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If I have to speak in public, I am terrified.
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I never wanted to be in movies. In a sense, I'm still a failure because I wanted to be a star on the stage.
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When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.
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Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive.
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I think that [Barack] Obama was elected because young people are starting to get interested in their country and I think that's a very healthy thing.
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The biggest lie is the lie we tell ourselves in the distorted visions we have of ourselves, blocking out some sections, enhancing others. What remains are not the cold facts of life, but how we perceive them. That's really who we are.
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Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.
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Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?
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Know what a loner is? He's a born cripple. He's a cripple because the only person he can live with is himself. It's his life, the way he wants to live. It's all for him.
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You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give.
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You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.
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When you get old the worst thing is you lose so many friends. Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne. People who I loved to work with.
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