Michael Douglas

“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.”

“The most valuable commodity I know of is information.”

“Cancer was a real wake-up call. I'm not going to take it for granted. I'm going to eat well, I'm going to get my exercise and I'm going to enjoy my life.”

“There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends.”

“The family is the first essential cell of human society.”

“What I've learned in my life, it's a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at the bottom of the barrel and the guy at the top of the barrel.”

“There's no such thing as a small part, only small actors.”

“I'm intrigued by the dark side of humanity.”

“Once you've been portrayed as a villain, you'll have a lot of difficult times in your life, because a lot of people don't like you for that.”

“I think the fact that I am a product of a divorced family has prevented me from ever getting divorced.”

“For me, it's important to keep a level of anonymity.”

“I think it's important for actors to be able to be your own boss and create your own material.”