Kirk Douglas
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"Kirk Douglas" is an American film and stage actor, film producer and author. His popular films include Out of the Past (1947), Champion (1949 film)/Champion (1949), Ace in the Hole (film)/Ace in the Hole (1951), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954 film)/20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), Lust for Life (film)/Lust for Life (1956), Paths of Glory (1957), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (film)/Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), The Vikings (1958 film)/The Vikings (1958), Spartacus (film)/Spartacus (1960), Lonely Are the Brave (1962), Seven Days in May (1964), The Heroes of Telemark (1965), Saturn 3 (1980) and Tough Guys (1986). He is one of the last remaining stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood.

He is No. 17 on the American Film Institute's AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars/list of the greatest male screen legends in American film history, making him the highest-ranked living person on the list. In 1996, he received the Academy Honorary Award "for 50 years as a creative and moral force in the motion picture community". A social activist, Douglas played an instrumental role in ending the Hollywood blacklist in 1960 by openly crediting Dalton Trumbo as the writer of Spartacus" screenplay.

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Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive.

"The older you get, the more awards you get. So, if you live long enough, then you get all the awards eventually."

It seems as if only now I really know who I am. My strengths, my weaknesses, my jealousies—it's as if all of it has been boiling in a pot for all these years, and as it boils, it evaporates into steam, and all that's left in the pot in the end is your essence, the stuff you started out with in the very beginning.

A Whale of a Tale.

A Father. A Son. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Love has more depth as you get older.

Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.

You know, I've often thought if I were much older, I might not have done that, ... As you get older, you get more conservative, but I was still young enough to be a little bit impulsive. What got me was the hypocrisy.