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When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.
Kirk Douglas
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Kirk Douglas
Age: 103 †
Born: 1916
Born: December 9
Died: 2020
Died: February 5
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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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In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.
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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.
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The first time I had got an offer to come to Hollywood, I turned it down. I said, No, I'm an actor of the stage.
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My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a building and take a book on any subject. They couldn't believe this access to knowledge we have here in America. They couldn't believe that it was free.
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I'm a loner clear down deep to my guts.
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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 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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What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder.
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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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I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.
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Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.
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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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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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Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?
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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 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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You'll never see Spartacus in a (expletive) chair!
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The best wine comes from home, wherever it is.
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You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give.
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