Learning patience was not an easy lesson.

— Michael Douglas

Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that's nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it's ignored, it withers.

— Michael Douglas

Money never sleeps, pal

— Michael Douglas

My marriage and my families come certainly before my career.

— Michael Douglas

My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior, and she was a junior, and their marriage didn't last very long.

— Michael Douglas

My movies are usually about stripping off the makeup, getting down to the skeleton.

— Michael Douglas

There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.

— Michael Douglas

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.

— Michael Douglas

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.

— Michael Douglas

When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.

— Michael Douglas