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Kirk Douglas
Age: 103 †
Born: 1916
Born: December 9
Died: 2020
Died: February 5
Actor
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Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
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Stage Actor
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Amsterdam (city)
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Issur Danielovitch
Izzy Demsky
Isador Demsky
Issur Danielovich
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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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Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.
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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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Virtue is not photogenic.
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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 guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.
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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 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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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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When you get to my age, you find that most of your dear friends are gone.
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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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A stroke is a very difficult thing. You get depressed. . . . What I found was this: the cure for depression is to think of others, to do for others. You can always find something to be grateful for.
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