Michael Douglas

In the movie 'Wall Street' I play Gordon Gekko, a greedy corporate executive who cheated to profit while innocent investors lost their savings. The movie was fiction, but the problem is real.

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.

I've just kind of been used to carrying movies. I look back and I'm just used to being in every single scene in a lot of pictures.

I was undeclared. I was in my third year of school. They said you have to decide upon a major, and my father was an actor. My mother was an actress. So, I thought theater might be the way to go.

Celebrity gets you access to world leaders.

I've always liked Tina Turner.

There is something about seeing rhinos and lions running free that excites you. It's not that you feel afraid; it's more like you're liberated by seeing them.

Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than the person that's closest to us. And you just gotta remember not to take for granted that person that's closest to you.

There are not a lot of sons or daughters of actors who have made it. Hollywood is awash with failures.

Like my father, like most actors, I was a pretty ambitious guy.

Paul Rudd is ripped.

Directors have so much else to do besides tell actors what to do. There are so many issues and problems.