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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.
Kirk Douglas
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Kirk Douglas
Age: 103 †
Born: 1916
Born: December 9
Died: 2020
Died: February 5
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What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder.
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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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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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Really a bad guy is more interesting, dramatically, than the good guy.
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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 went to Hollywood to test for Martha Ivers and I thought I was going to play the part that Van Heflin played.But they wanted me to play the part of Barbara Stanwyck's husband, so I played that. Then when I finished the movie, I went back to Broadway and did another flop.
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