Quotes from Michael Douglas

I've been dying to do a Marvel picture for so long.

Most of the stories I read are about my Hollywood pedigree.

'Five Easy Pieces,' 'Easy Rider' - those are indie pictures; those were not studio pictures. They had relationships with studio distribution, but they were indies.

In 'Wall Street,' Charlie Sheen carried that movie.

The people who work in Wall Street still look up to Gordon Gekko. He's sort of a guru.

With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time with different brokers on 'Wall Street.' It helps get the rhythm of the piece and the tone, and how overplayed or underplayed it might be. That's also the magic of movies: You get to hang out and live these different lives.

Celebrity gets you access to world leaders.

The message from national security experts and citizens around the world is clear: The only way to eliminate the global nuclear danger is to eliminate all nuclear weapons.

You just have to know what your responsibility is to the movie, and live up to that, and be considerate of the other actors in the scene... I have never been competitive in that way - I always want my leading ladies to be as good as they possibly can be.

Capitalism is part of our system, but it's not for the faint of heart.

I grew up on the East Coast and was going to go to an Ivy League School, but at the last minute I decided to be a hippy. It was the protest movements on the war, peace movements were going on at our university. It was a fantastic time.

When you've accomplished a certain amount in your career, you're not so focused on your ambitions.