Kirk Douglas

“מהם הסודות שרק אתה יודע?”

“לעתים קרובות, עשיתי דברים שלא רציתי כי נכנעתי ללחצים.”

“שום דבר לא יגרום לך להיות מאושר עד שתדע מי אתה.”

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

“I was not a very good Jew. I never practised what Judaism tells you to do, to teach your kids all about Judaism.”

“Cancer does give you a new rejuvenation. I know what it's like to be down. I lost a couple of good friends - Larry Hagman and Nick Ashford - who had the same type of cancer that I did, and that makes you think.”

“What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder.”

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

“It's tough to make a movie about movies... We're all too close to it. But 'The Bad and the Beautiful' was very good.”

“Love has more depth as you get older.”

“I was living in a terrible time when people were being accused of being communists, and they attacked the movie industry, especially the writers. People couldn't work if they were on the blacklist. The studios banned them. It was the most onerous period in movie history. I don't think we have ever had a period so dark as that.”

“I have studied religion, and I have concluded that there is some power. We don't understand it.”

“I think religion has caused so much catastrophe in the world.”

“I studied Judaism a lot. I studied religion in general, and I have never imposed my Judaism on my kids. They are what they want to be. I think... you must care for others. That's the correct religion, I think.”

“People are composed of many things, and in my work, what influences me is the complexity of people - the chiaroscuro of dark and light. When I play a strong guy, I try to find, where is he weak? And, conversely, when I play a weak guy, where is he strong?”

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

“I love talking to interesting people - people like O.J. Simpson, Andretti... I love champions. A champion has something special about him.”

“Being second generation in Hollywood is complicated: Success is expected, and yet the track record of the second generation is not great. Only a small group of us, like Jane Fonda, have succeeded.”

“I'm an actor; I have made my living by acting, and I almost think I owe it to the public to express my feelings and not as a character on a screen but as myself.”

“You know, sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say - you're bright! They're actually surprised I might be bright.”