Michael Douglas

I enjoy provocative things that are questionable.

Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.

My marriage and my families come certainly before my career.

I've never been one to carefully calculate my career decisions, to sit on the outside looking in. I go with my passion and what moves me.

It's difficult for me to meet women because my crowd is much older. I know that for some of the young women I do meet, a relationship with me can be envisioned as a benefit to their career.

I went into rehab to save my marriage, but I wound up saving myself.

When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.

Cancer has shown me what family is. It showed me a love that I never knew really existed.

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 think sometimes in relationships, ladies like having a man who takes care of them, nurtures them. If you can't find it in a man your own age, you find it in somebody who is older.

Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that's nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it's ignored, it withers.

It took me too long to realise that if you go to a marriage counsellor to resolve problems, it's in his interest to keep the marriage going.