Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglasis an American actor, producer, director, and author. After an impoverished childhood with immigrant parents and six sisters, he had his film debut in The Strange Love of Martha Iverswith Barbara Stanwyck. Douglas soon developed into a leading box-office star throughout the 1950s and 1960s, known for serious dramas, including westerns and war movies. During a sixty-year acting career, he has appeared in over 90 movies, and in 1960 was responsible for helping to end the Hollywood Blacklist...
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth9 December 1916
CityAmsterdam, NY
I was living in a terrible time when people were being accused of being communists, and they attacked the movie industry, especially the writers. People couldn't work if they were on the blacklist. The studios banned them. It was the most onerous period in movie history. I don't think we have ever had a period so dark as that.
Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive.
The best wine comes from home, wherever it is.
You have not learned to live until you have learned to give
A stroke is a very difficult thing. You get depressed. . . . What I found was this: the cure for depression is to think of others, to do for others. You can always find something to be grateful for.
Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?
If I have to speak in public, I am terrified.
I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.
I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.
I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.
Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.
Acting is a youthful profession.
Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.
Since my stroke, I have begun to see so many miracles all around me. I look out of the window in my room: verdant grass, silver-tipped oak leaves, tall palm trees gentle swaying as they reach to the sky, masses and masses of roses. All colors, so many shapes, exquisite fragrances.