Kirk Douglas citáty

„Muž, který chodí s utrženým knoflíkem, by se měl oženit nebo rozvést.“

—  Kirk Douglas

„Love has more depth as you get older. “

—  Kirk Douglas

„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. “

—  Kirk Douglas

„You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give. “

—  Kirk Douglas

„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

„The learning process continues until the day you die. “

—  Kirk Douglas

„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

„Unfortunately, once I did learn to smoke, I couldn't stop. I escalated to two packs a day very quickly, and stayed that way for about ten years. When I decided to stop, I adopted the method that my father had used when he quit. He would carry a cigarette in his shirt pocket, and every time he felt like smoking, he would pull out the cigarette and confront it: «Who stronger? You? Me?» Always the answer was the same: «I stronger.» Back the cigarette would go, until the next craving. It worked for him, and it worked for me. “

—  Kirk Douglas

„Too often, I have not been what I wanted to be I've succumbed to pressures. Yes, I have. The things I've done that I liked, I've always done against advice. The bad films everybody was high on. The good films, they advised me against.“

—  Kirk Douglas

Interview, 1969 http://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/interview-with-kirk-douglas

„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. “

—  Kirk Douglas

„The first thing I look for in a woman is warmth-femininity. It's got nothing to do with a pretty face. “

—  Kirk Douglas

„Compared to Thoreau, Saint Francis of Assisi was peanuts.“

—  Kirk Douglas

Interview, 1969 http://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/interview-with-kirk-douglas

„Don't crucify me because of what your idea of a movie star is. I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor. You people out in the East have no idea what goes on out here. No awareness or knowledge whatsoever. You lose track of the human being behind the image of the movie star.“

—  Kirk Douglas

Interview, 1969 http://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/interview-with-kirk-douglas

„I love champions. A champion has something special about him.“

—  Kirk Douglas

Interview, 1969 http://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/interview-with-kirk-douglas

„I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians. I responded to that in making the picture. I put a lot of warmth into that character. Those immigrants were tough, more intensive than people are these days.“

—  Kirk Douglas

Of his film "The Brotherhood".
Interview, 1969 http://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/interview-with-kirk-douglas