Quote

If I have to speak in public, I am terrified.

Kirk Douglas

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Kirk Douglas
Age: 103 †
Born: 1916
Born: December 9
Died: 2020
Died: February 5
Actor
Author
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Soldier
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Amsterdam (city)
New York
Issur Danielovitch
Izzy Demsky
Isador Demsky
Issur Danielovich
Terrified
Public
Speak

More quotes by Kirk Douglas

Image
You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give.
Kirk Douglas
Image
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.
Kirk Douglas
Image
The best wine comes from home, wherever it is.
Kirk Douglas
Image
Maybe there is no peace in this world. I don't know ... But I know as long as we live we must stay true to ourselves.
Kirk Douglas
Image
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.
Kirk Douglas
Image
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.
Kirk Douglas
Image
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.
Kirk Douglas
Image
My children didn't have my advantages I was born into abject poverty.
Kirk Douglas
Image
We look for wine when we should be hunting bread.
Kirk Douglas
Image
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.
Kirk Douglas
Image
If I can get enough signatures, to present an apology to slavery, I will present it to the President. The House of Representatives has already passed the resolution for the apology, but it has to pass the Senate. I think, in spite of all our problems, I think we're in the right direction.
Kirk Douglas
Image
I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.
Kirk Douglas
Image
The older you get, the more awards you get. So, if you live long enough, then you get all the awards eventually.
Kirk Douglas
Image
Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive.
Kirk Douglas
Image
When you get to my age, you find that most of your dear friends are gone.
Kirk Douglas
Image
Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.
Kirk Douglas
Image
When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.
Kirk Douglas
Image
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 .
Kirk Douglas
Image
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.
Kirk Douglas
Image
What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder.
Kirk Douglas