Michael Douglas

“I don't ever do those kind of epic, huge, green-screen movies.”

“The thing with cancer is that you want to get it as early as you can.”

“The so-called 'last golden age,' in the 1970s, most of those movies were independent films.”

“The message from national security experts and citizens around the world is clear: The only way to eliminate the global nuclear danger is to eliminate all nuclear weapons.”

“Celebrity gets you access to world leaders.”

“I never really look at my movies.”

“Kids know. They know everything. I would err on the side of pretty much sharing everything.”

“Money never sleeps, pal”

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

“My own parents divorced when I was six. I was raised with my brother Joel by our mother on the East Coast, visiting my father in Los Angeles during holidays. When your parents are divorced, you don't know anything else, do you?”

“I was undeclared. I was in my third year of school. They said you have to decide upon a major, and my father was an actor. My mother was an actress. So, I thought theater might be the way to go.”

“I love kids, and I love having had this second chance to have a family.”

“Directing talent is very nebulous. You know, it's not in front of you like an actor's performance.”

“It took me too long to realise that if you go to a marriage counsellor to resolve problems, it's in his interest to keep the marriage going.”

“If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe?”

“Paul Rudd is ripped.”

“I don't know if likeable, pleasant characters have enough conflict for me to want to do them. I admire those people, but I've never been that kind of screen presence who can do nothing. I need to do something.”

“I've never been one to carefully calculate my career decisions, to sit on the outside looking in. I go with my passion and what moves me.”

“I've taken blame about being a bad father - if being a bad father is working your butt off trying to create a career at one time.”

“My father did 90-plus films. He was Spartacus!”