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.

I've taken blame about being a bad father - if being a bad father is working your butt off trying to create a career at one time.

Money never sleeps, pal

I don't look good in tights. I know that.

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.

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.

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.

I had a great stepfather.

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

I haven't played a lot of nice guys.

The one thing that men and women have in common - they both like the company of men.