Kirk Douglas Quotes

• Jesus studied the Torah; Mohammed studied the Torah, But I had ever studied the Torah. It was about time.

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• Were it not for the pious, black hatted, bearded Jews with their long payes, who never gave up on the Torah no matter what the world was doing, I might not have a Torah to study today.

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• It took me so long to figure out that I need not go very far … The journey is a journey into our souls. The destination had been predetermined for each one of us. The destination is death. G-d will decide when we have arrived. That part is out of our hands. But we have the free will, the choice of how we travel, just how we will climb that mountain of life.

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• The world is still full of wonders to me. The adults around me seem to know all about it, so how come I don’t? But maybe they’re just faking. I’m sure they don’t understand the biggest mystery-the mystery of the soul. …. Where does this inner voice come from? What is the source of our yearnings to reach beyond ourselves?

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• Last year they prevented me from climbing Mount Sinai, but now I am eighty, the same age as Moses, and I will climb that mountain.

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• It’s not important to reach the top of the mountain. What is important is the climb. … The journey is far more important than the destination, because it is of our making. What counts is how we behave as we are climbing.

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• I am extremely resentful of the Jewish teachers of my childhood, who put such an emphasis of the form and fundamentalism of the religion, but not on the spirituality.

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• Someone shocked me by pointing out to me that all my books-my autobiography and my three novels-seem to have the same theme. Each is about a man who is coming to terms with himself, who is looking back at who he was, and who he is and wondering who he will become. And each man is a Jew. When I read it now, I see it plainly. I see that no matter how far I ran away from my Jewishness, it was always there. Sometimes it was behind me, or to the side, or in front of  me, but it was always there. ….

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• Too often, I have not been what I wanted to be; I’ve succumbed to pressures. Yes, I have. The things I’ve done that I liked, I’ve always done against advice.

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• Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that’s what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.

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• What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder.

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• When you become a star, you don’t change – everyone else does.

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• When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.

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• When you have a stroke, you must talk slowly to be understood, and I’ve discovered that when I talk slowly, people listen. They think I’m going to say something important!

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• You know, sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say – you’re bright! They’re actually surprised I might be bright.

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• You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.

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• The learning process continues until the day you die.

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• Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free.

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• People are composed of many things, and in my work, what influences me is the complexity of people – the chiaroscuro of dark and light. When I play a strong guy, I try to find, where is he weak? And, conversely, when I play a weak guy, where is he strong?

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• People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don’t think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed.

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Kirk Douglas (41)

Birth:	9th December, 1916
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Author, Director, Producer

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