Michael Douglas

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

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

I've always worked hard and played hard, and I'm sure I'll be cleaning up my act in the future.

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.

Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.

If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe?