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The learning process continues until the day you die.
Kirk Douglas
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Kirk Douglas
Age: 103 †
Born: 1916
Born: December 9
Died: 2020
Died: February 5
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Film Actor
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Amsterdam (city)
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Issur Danielovitch
Izzy Demsky
Isador Demsky
Issur Danielovich
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In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.
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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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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 older you get, the more awards you get. So, if you live long enough, then you get all the awards eventually.
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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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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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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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My children didn't have my advantages I was born into abject poverty.
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I was going to play in First Blood, but I suggested to changing it and I dropped out. I said to [Silvester] Stallone, 'You know, I almost stopped you from making millions of dollars,' because in my suggestion, I killed his character at the end of the picture .
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I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.
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My mother, we were a very poor family. When I was a kid, we would be in our little room, and there would be a knock on the door almost every night with a hobo begging for food. Even though we didn't even have enough to eat, my mother always found something to give them.
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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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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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Really a bad guy is more interesting, dramatically, than the good guy.
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We look for wine when we should be hunting bread.
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If I have to speak in public, I am terrified.
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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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Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.
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