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  • I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

    "Kirk Douglas: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
  • I felt [It Runs in the Family] it was a picture that, after I'm gone, my family would like to see it. It was a wonderful mixture of people in my family.

    Running   People   Gone  
    Source: www.movieweb.com
  • The older you get, the more awards you get. So, if you live long enough, then you get all the awards eventually.

    Awards   Long   Enough  
  • On a crowded bus in Israel, a mother was speaking to her son in Yiddish. An Israeli woman reprimanded her. "You should be speaking Hebrew. Why are you talking to him in Yiddish?" The mother answered, "I don't want he should forget he's a Jew."

    Funny   Mother   Humor  
  • I was going to play in First Blood, but I suggested to changing it and I dropped out. I said to [Silvester] Stallone, 'You know, I almost stopped you from making millions of dollars,' because in my suggestion, I killed his character at the end of the picture .

    Character   Blood   Play  
    "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.
  • I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is play Spider Solitaire. And I don't have a cell phone.

    Phones   Cells   Play  
  • The best wine comes from home, wherever it is.

    Home   Wine   Best Wine  
  • With John Wayne, we argued all the time and we made four pictures.

    Four   Wayne   Made  
    "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.
  • I have been trying to create a campaign to have our country make an apology for slavery, for the way that blacks were treated before the Civil War and after the Civil War.

    Country   War   Apology  
    "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.
  • Now, why is it that most of us can talk openly about the illnesses of our bodies, but when it comes to our brain and illnesses of the mind we clam up and because we clam up, people with emotional disorders feel ashamed, stigmatized, and don't seek the help that can make the difference.

  • Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?

    Waiting   Doe   Actors  
    Kirk Douglas, Anne Douglas (2017). “Kirk and Anne (Turner Classic Movies): Letters of Love, Laughter, and a Lifetime in Hollywood”, p.209, Hachette UK
  • If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.

    Men   Want   Awful  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Maybe there is no peace in this world. I don't know ... But I know as long as we live we must stay true to ourselves.

  • You'll never see Spartacus in a (expletive) chair!

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

    Boys   Bad Boy  
  • When you get to my age, you find that most of your dear friends are gone.

    Age   Gone   Dear Friend  
    "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.
  • My mother once said, "A beggar must always give to another beggar that's worse off than he is." That has always stuck with me.

    Mother   Giving   Stuck  
  • What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder.

    "We Are Spartacus" by Kirk Douglas, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2012.
  • I'm glad they gave women the right to vote, but sometimes I'm sorry they have the right to smoke. Most women are messy about it, particularly about their lipstick. I don't mind wiping lipstick off myself, but I hate seeing it on cigarettes, napkins and coffee cups! I don't like women with all their beauty machinery showing-curlers, cold cream, mascara brushes. I'd even prefer to not see a woman touch up her lipstick, but I guess that's expecting too much.

    Sorry   Hate   Coffee  
  • All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

  • Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.

    Mean   Doe   Want  
  • Love has more depth as you get older.

    Depth  
    "Kirk Douglas: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
  • 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.

    Mother   Kids   Night  
  • When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.

    "We Are Spartacus" by Kirk Douglas, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2012.
  • 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

    Kirk Douglas (2001). “Climbing the Mountain: My Search for Meaning”, p.256, Simon and Schuster
  • Life is like a B-picture script.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic.

  • I remember little things that break my heart. We were coming out of Michael's house one day, and he noticed my shoelaces were undone. He bent down and tied them. I almost cried. To me, it was such a gesture of love.

    Love   Dream   Heart  
  • I'm concerned that the world is a mess. That's why when I wrote my last book, Let's Face It, I dedicated it to the younger generation because, let's face it, the world is in a mess. Right now, the young people will inherit that mess. I think we have to do everything we can.

    Book   Thinking   People  
    "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.
  • If I can get enough signatures, to present an apology to slavery, I will present it to the President. The House of Representatives has already passed the resolution for the apology, but it has to pass the Senate. I think, in spite of all our problems, I think we're in the right direction.

    "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.
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