Michael Douglas movie quotes

“- Sydney Ellen Wade: Oh, Andy, a C minus in Women's Studies.
- President Andrew Shepherd: Yeah, well, that class wasn't about what I thought it was about.”

Annette Bening - Sydney Ellen Wade
Michael Douglas - President Andrew Shepherd

“- Sheila Bryant: You were a rotten dancer.
- Zach: Why do you think I became your choreographer?”
Vicki Frederick - Sheila Bryant
Michael Douglas - Zach

“It's not about the money. It's about the game between people.”
Michael Douglas - Gordon Gekko

“This wedding is going to be as normal as butter on mashed potatoes.”
Michael Douglas - Steve Tobias

“The law. Nothing is right or wrong! It's either the law or it's not the law. Well, we got a problem here, because it's not working anymore. It turns out that right and wrong count.”
Michael Douglas - Superior Court Judge Steven R. Hardin

“- Randy: There's the ten-thousand dollars... well, aren't you gonna count it?
- Mr. Burmeister: Nah.
- Randy: You trust me?
- Mr. Burmeister: No, but I kill people.”
Matt Dillon - Randy
Michael Douglas - Mr. Burmeister

“- Pete Garrison: I thought it was, uh, an excellent speech.
- 1st Lady Sarah Ballentine: One to 10?
- Pete Garrison: Ten, ma'am.
- 1st Lady Sarah Ballentine: You're not a very good liar, Pete.”
Michael Douglas - Pete Garrison
Kim Basinger - 1st Lady Sarah Ballentine

“- Caroline Wakefield: What's Washington like?
- Robert Wakefield: What's Washington like? Well its like Calcutta, surrounded by beggars. The only difference is the beggars in Washington wear fifteen hundred dollar suits and they don't say please or thank you.”
Erika Christensen - Caroline Wakefield
Michael Douglas - Robert Wakefield

“I've passed the point of no return. Do you know what that is, Beth? That's the point in a journey where it's longer to go back to the beginning.”

Michael Douglas - D-Fens

“- Stephanie Kaplan: I remember I had a friend. She was one of the first women who moved really high up. You know what it's like in the high rooms - every day putting out fires, but it turns out, the job wasn't anything she thought it was, and she was looking the wrong way when they fired her.
- Tom Sanders: Interesting.
- Stephanie Kaplan: The...” (continue)(continue reading)
Rosemary Forsyth - Stephanie Kaplan
Michael Douglas - Tom Sanders

“Nobody teaches a writer anything. You tell'em what you know. You tell'em to find their voice and stay with it. You tell the ones that have it to keep at it. You tell the ones that don't have it to keep at it too because that's the only way they're gonna get to where they're going.”
Michael Douglas - Prof. Grady Tripp

“Sometimes, you just got to go for it.”
Michael Douglas - Nick Conklin

“- Nick: You didn't love him.
- Catherine: That's right.
- Nick: Even though you were fucking him.
- Catherine: You still get the pleasure. Didn't you ever fuck anybody else while you were married, Nick?”
Michael Douglas - Detective Nick Curran
Sharon Stone - Catherine Tramell

“The one thing I learned in jail is that money is not the prime asset in life. Time is.”
Michael Douglas - Gordon Gekko

“A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies.”
Michael Douglas

Someone reminded me I once said "Greed is good". Now it seems it's legal. Because everyone is drinking the same Kool Aid.
Michael Douglas - Gordon Gekko

“- Joan Wilder: I need to get to Cartagena.
- Jack T. Colton: Cartagena? Angel, you are hell and gone from Cartagena. Cartagena's over there on the coast.
- Joan Wilder: But they told me this bus.
- Jack T. Colton: Who told you that? Who told you this bus was going to Cartagena?
- Joan Wilder: That man...
- Jack T. Colton: That nice man who...” (continue)(continue reading)
Kathleen Turner - Joan Wilder
Michael Douglas - Jack T. Colton

“Idealism kills every deal.”
Michael Douglas - Gordon Gekko

“Breaking and entering makes everything taste... different. Makes it taste, um, livelier.”
Michael Douglas - Charlie

“I'm going home.”

Michael Douglas - D-Fens

“The one thing that men and women have in common - they both like the company of men.”
Michael Douglas

“Catastrophe equals opportunity.”
Michael Douglas - Charlie

“One good hand job deserves another.”
Michael Douglas - Nick Conklin

“- Nick: I don't owe you anything! And you don't owe me anything. We went to bed 10, maybe 15 times. That's miserable enough to carry an obligation.
- Beth Garner: Sometimes I really hate you.
- Nick: Oh, then why don't you get yourself some friendly little therapist and try to work out all that hostility? Then maybe you can get off once in a while.”
Michael Douglas - Detective Nick Curran
Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn - Dr. Beth Garner

“- Charlie: Miranda, did you go to that orgie?
- Miranda: I... it was a barbecue.”
Michael Douglas - Charlie
Evan Rachel Wood - Miranda