Kirk Douglas Quotes

Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.

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.

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.

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.

I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.

Acting is a youthful profession.

My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty.

I directed two films, not very successfully, and after that, I went back to being an actor and a producer.

The best wine comes from home, wherever it is.

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

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.

I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.

I felt [It Runs in the Family] it was a picture that, after I'm gone, my family would like to see it. It was a wonderful mixture of people in my family.

Being seventy has its advantages. I was outspoken before, but now what have I got to keep quiet about?

Love has more depth as you get older.

The older you get, the more awards you get. So, if you live long enough, then you get all the awards eventually.

You'll never see Spartacus in a (expletive) chair!

Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive.

If I have to speak in public, I am terrified.

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.

Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.

If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.

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.

When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.

The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

We look for wine when we should be hunting bread.

The first thing I look for in a woman is warmth-femininity. It's got nothing to do with a pretty face.

You have not learned to live until you have learned to give

Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.

When you get to my age, you find that most of your dear friends are gone.

I'm a loner clear down deep to my guts.

Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?

When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.

Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free.

Virtue is not photogenic.

You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

The learning process continues until the day you die.

My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give.