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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.
- Kirk Douglas
#Boss
#Me
#Nobody
#Own
#Way
Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.
- Kirk Douglas
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#Fame
#Luck
#More
#Talent
My mother, we were a very poor family. When I was a kid, we would be in our little room, and there would be a knock on the door almost every night with a hobo begging for food. Even though we didn't even have enough to eat, my mother always found something to give them.
- Kirk Douglas
#Door
#Family
#Food
#Night
#Poor
Love has more depth as you get older.
- Kirk Douglas
#Depth
#Get
#Love
#More
#Older
When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.
- Kirk Douglas
#Become
#Change
#Else
#Everyone
#Star
People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed.
- Kirk Douglas
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#Great
#Movies
#People
#They Say
When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.
- Kirk Douglas
#Looking Back
#Looking
#Start
#Surprise
I have been an actor for most of my life. When I started out, I didn't think about anything except what was good for me. Like many movie stars, I became all wrapped up in myself.
- Kirk Douglas
#Good
#Life
#My Life
#Myself
#Stars
All my life, I have taken inventory at intervals. For example, when I became a movie actor and suddenly I had to deal with fame, money and playing so many roles, I lost myself. I said, 'Who am I?' And I wrote my first book to deal with that, 'The Ragman's Son.'
- Kirk Douglas
#Life
#Lost
#Money
#My Life
#Myself
You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.
- Kirk Douglas
#Adversity
#Deal
#Inner
#Know
#Philosophy
I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.
- Kirk Douglas
#Abject
#Go
#Nowhere
#Poverty
#Up
All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.
- Kirk Douglas
#Actor
#Children
#Grow
#Never
#Still
I didn't think I was so tough until I did 'Champion'; then I was a tough guy.
- Kirk Douglas
#Champion
#Did
#Guy
#Tough Guy
#Tough
Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.
- Kirk Douglas
#Big
#Fat
#Nice
#Nothing
#Smile
Virtue is not photogenic, so I liked playing bad guys. But, whenever I played a bad guy, I tried to find something good in him, and that kept my contact with the audience.
- Kirk Douglas
#Audience
#Bad Guy
#Bad
#Find
#Good
Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.
- Kirk Douglas
#Fear
#Makes
#Terrible
#Thing
#Things
Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.
- Kirk Douglas
#God
#Me
#Mean
#Now
#Want
I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.
- Kirk Douglas
#Bad Boy
#Bad
#Life
#My Life
#Women
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.
- Kirk Douglas
#Bad
#Matter
#Me
#Right
#Speech
In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.
- Kirk Douglas
#Achieve
#Anything
#Brave
#Enough
#Order
The learning process continues until the day you die.
- Kirk Douglas
#Day
#Die
#Learning
#Process
#Until
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