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We look for wine when we should be hunting bread.
Kirk Douglas
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Kirk Douglas
Age: 103 †
Born: 1916
Born: December 9
Died: 2020
Died: February 5
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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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Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive.
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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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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 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.
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The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic.
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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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I have been trying to create a campaign to have our country make an apology for slavery, for the way that blacks were treated before the Civil War and after the Civil War.
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I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.
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If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.
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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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My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.
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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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My mother, we were a very poor family. When I was a kid, we would be in our little room, and there would be a knock on the door almost every night with a hobo begging for food. Even though we didn't even have enough to eat, my mother always found something to give them.
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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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If I have to speak in public, I am terrified.
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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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