“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, rogerebert.comTagged: peer pressure, Advice
“I love champions. A champion has something special about him.”— Kirk Douglas, rogerebert.comTagged: champions
“Compared to Thoreau, Saint Francis of Assisi was peanuts.”— Kirk Douglas, rogerebert.comTagged: Henry David Thoreau, Saint Francis of Assissi
“The foreign directors are always fumbling about in obscurity, and the critics are always writing about the juxtaposition of black and white and the existential dilemma and all that shit, to disguise the fact that they don't understand the first damn thing about it, either.”— Kirk Douglas, rogerebert.comTagged: Filmmaking, Existential, Black and White, Shit
“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, rogerebert.comTagged: Italians, Warmth, Immigrants
“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.”— Kirk Douglas, rogerebert.comTagged: movie star, Acting