Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.
Kirk Douglas
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Looking
Start
Back
Surprise
Reach
More quotes by Kirk Douglas
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.
Kirk Douglas
Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.
Kirk Douglas
The learning process continues until the day you die.
Kirk Douglas
Virtue is not photogenic.
Kirk Douglas
When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.
Kirk Douglas
Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.
Kirk Douglas
I'm a loner clear down deep to my guts.
Kirk Douglas
Really a bad guy is more interesting, dramatically, than the good guy.
Kirk Douglas
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.
Kirk Douglas
Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.
Kirk Douglas
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
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
We look for wine when we should be hunting bread.
Kirk Douglas
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
When you get to my age, you find that most of your dear friends are gone.
Kirk Douglas
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
My children didn't have my advantages I was born into abject poverty.
Kirk Douglas
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.
Kirk Douglas
If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.
Kirk Douglas
My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.
Kirk Douglas
