Michael Douglas Quotes

When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.

~ Michael Douglas

When I was working on pictures with my father, there were a couple leading ladies to whom I wish I'd expressed how I felt rather than being too cool or too shy.

~ Michael Douglas

I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father.

~ Michael Douglas

The studios basically, besides developing some material, their strength is distribution. Distribution in any other business is a cost that you incur. You know, in a trucking business, you eat it. In a film business, distribution is a profit center.

~ Michael Douglas

Learning patience was not an easy lesson.

~ Michael Douglas

Do you know what absolute happiness is? For me, it is to wake up my kids in the morning - these little pieces of innocence - to wake them and find they're so happy to see me! It is unequivocal love, no question about it.

~ Michael Douglas

There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.

~ Michael Douglas

I guess there are some women who like older men, but it's a smaller group.

~ Michael Douglas

It's difficult for me to meet women because my crowd is much older. I know that for some of the young women I do meet, a relationship with me can be envisioned as a benefit to their career.

~ Michael Douglas

My movies are usually about stripping off the makeup, getting down to the skeleton.

~ Michael Douglas

My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and their marriage didn't last very long.

~ Michael Douglas

I went into rehab to save my marriage, but I wound up saving myself.

~ Michael Douglas

Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that's nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it's ignored, it withers.

~ Michael Douglas

I try not to dwell too much on a bad marriage.

~ Michael Douglas

My marriage and my families come certainly before my career.

~ Michael Douglas

During my first marriage, my career was the most important thing in my life.

~ Michael Douglas

I have nothing against her, and in fact I'm very fond of my first wife. But we should have ended that marriage eight or 10 years earlier.

~ Michael Douglas

It took me too long to realise that if you go to a marriage counsellor to resolve problems, it's in his interest to keep the marriage going.

~ Michael Douglas

I don't smile a lot in my pictures. I'm always so... grim.

~ Michael Douglas