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Really a bad guy is more interesting, dramatically, than the good guy.

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Kirk Douglas
Age: 103 †
Born: 1916
Born: December 9
Died: 2020
Died: February 5
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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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I have always been grateful that my Russian mother and father came to this country to give me a better chance, and I have had a better chance.
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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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We look for wine when we should be hunting bread.
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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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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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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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If I have to speak in public, I am terrified.
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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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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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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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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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The first thing I look for in a woman is warmth-femininity. It's got nothing to do with a pretty face.
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I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.
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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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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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Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive.
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You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.
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