Michael Douglas Quotes

Greed is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed will save the U.S.A.!

Every empire eventually falls.

It's a phenomenon that I see with young actors - a lot of American speaking parts going to British actors.

Suddenly you've worked yourself up to the top of the pecking order and you say to yourself, okay, this is going to be fun.

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

A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.

Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.

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

Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.

My brain cannot conceive how old my body is.

For an actor, its great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them.

Someone reminded me I once said, 'Greed is good.' Now it seems it's legal.

Money itself isn’t lost or made. It’s simply transferred from one perception to another.

We must unite to make nuclear weapons a horror of the past.

Cigar smoking by it's very nature is much more reflective than interactive.

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

What's worth doing is worth doing for money.

Never knew how poor I was until I started making money.

I am a Jew. Those are four words of pride. My Jewishness is as deep as my genes.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies and cuts through to the essence of the evolutionary spirit.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

The one thing that men and women have in common - they both like the company of men.

Relationships are like bubbles – they’re fragile.

It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation.

Cancer did not bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet.

Being single is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility.

Out there is nothing but possibilities.