Kirk Douglas Quotes

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The foreign directors are always fumbling about in obscurity, and the critics are always writing about the juxtaposition of black and white and the existential dilemma and all that shit, to disguise the fact that they don't understand the first damn thing about it either.

Kirk Douglas
I love champions. A champion has something special about him.

Kirk Douglas
I never stop to savor a victory. When victory is inevitable, I've already left.

Kirk Douglas
Don't crucify me because of what your idea of a movie star is. I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor. You people out in the East have no idea what goes on out here. No awareness or knowledge whatsoever. You lose track of the human being behind the image of the movie star.

Kirk Douglas
I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians. I responded to that in making the picture. I put a lot of warmth into that character. Those immigrants were tough, more intensive than people are these days.

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Acting is like prizefighting. The downtown gyms are smelly, but that's where the champions are.

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Too often, I have not been what I wanted to be I've succumbed to pressures. Yes, I have. The things I've done that I liked, I've always done against advice. The bad films everybody was high on. The good films, they advised me against.

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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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All the movements now are encouraging women to be stronger. I'd like to be in a movement for men to be weaker. The right to be weak, the right to be passive, the right to do nothing.

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The mortality rate of studio executives is about the same as second lieutenants in Vietnam.

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Compared to Thoreau, Saint Francis of Assisi was peanuts.

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Sometimes I think my life is a B-movie script. I'd never make the movie.

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The definition of an actor - someone who loves rejection.

Kirk Douglas
Obey the voice within - it commands us to give of ourselves and help others. As long as we have the capacity to give, we are alive

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