A biography for Michael Douglashasn’t been written yet.
“I believe there is a spirit within us, which we nurture based upon our efforts and what we bring to the world. But it doesn't come from the outside; it comes from the inside.”
“During my first marriage, my career was the most important thing in my life.”
“The studios basically, besides developing some material, their strength is distribution. Distribution in any other business is a cost that you incur. You know, in a trucking business, you eat it. In a film business, distribution is a profit center.”
“Control is what gives you privacy.”
“Liberace was a lovely guy.”
“You just have to know what your responsibility is to the movie, and live up to that, and be considerate of the other actors in the scene... I have never been competitive in that way - I always want my leading ladies to be as good as they possibly can be.”
“When I was working on pictures with my father, there were a couple leading ladies to whom I wish I'd expressed how I felt rather than being too cool or too shy.”
“Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.”
“There are not a lot of sons or daughters of actors who have made it. Hollywood is awash with failures.”
“I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.”
“Cancer didn't bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet.”
“I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father.”
“Serious is when they tell you, 'You've got cancer.' Cancer is serious, but then the rest of it is not.”
“Do you know what absolute happiness is? For me, it is to wake up my kids in the morning - these little pieces of innocence - to wake them and find they're so happy to see me! It is unequivocal love, no question about it.”
“For an actor, it's great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them.”
“Cancer has shown me what family is. It showed me a love that I never knew really existed.”
“My marriage and my families come certainly before my career.”
“'Wall Street' was a very important movie for me in terms of my career. I won an Oscar, and then the film 'Fatal Attraction' came right after it.”
“All the pictures I do are contemporary. I've sort of discovered I haven't really been into science fiction or period pictures. And so, in that vein, psychological thrillers play a big part.”
“Religion has certainly been shoved down my throat.”