Michael Douglas's Quotes

People are goofy about the movie business, so you end up counting on friends you knew before you were successful. It is harder to make new friends because you are a little more cautious.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My marriage and my families come certainly before my career.

Michael Douglas

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

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 try not to dwell too much on a bad marriage.

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

My dad was a movie star. Having that name was good and bad. People think it's a silver spoon. It's not.

Michael Douglas

I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.

Michael Douglas

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

Michael Douglas