Michael Douglas movie quotes

“- President René Jean D'Astier: In my country, a guest at the palace of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette would soon find their head in a guillotine if they made the impertinent gesture of dancing without so much as a by-your-leave from the King and the Queen.
- A.J. MacInerney: I bet no one accused Louis of being soft on crime.
- Sydney Ellen Wade...” (continue)(continue reading)
Clement von Franckenstein - President René Jean D'Astier
Martin Sheen - A.J. MacInerney
Annette Bening - Sydney Ellen Wade
Michael Douglas - President Andrew Shepherd

- Steven Taylor: Half a million dollars, tax free.
- David Shaw: Just for walking away from her?
- Steven Taylor: I said "tax free", I didn't say "free".

Michael Douglas - Steven Taylor
Viggo Mortensen - David Shaw

“- Abdullah: I am a man of peace!
- Charles Remington: You sound like a man who wants to live.”

Om Puri - Abdullah
Michael Douglas - Charles Remington

“- Sydney Ellen Wade: How'd you finally do it?
- President Andrew Shepherd: Do what?
- Sydney Ellen Wade: Manage to give a woman flowers and be President at the same time?
- President Andrew Shepherd: Well, it turns out I've got a rose garden.”
Annette Bening - Sydney Ellen Wade
Michael Douglas - President Andrew Shepherd

“What's worth doing is worth doing for money.”
Michael Douglas - Gordon Gekko

“- Dr. Nathan R. Conrad: Was this... really... worth it?
- Patrick Koster: What?
- Dr. Nathan R. Conrad: Your life.
- Patrick Koster: Absolutely... it's mine.”

Michael Douglas - Dr. Nathan R. Conrad
Sean Bean - Patrick Koster

“As for me, I lost everything: my wife, my book, my job, everything that I thought was important. But I finally knew where I wanted to go. And now I have someone to help me get there.”
Michael Douglas - Prof. Grady Tripp

“Did I have a choice? Did I have a choice?”
Michael Douglas - Nicholas Van Orton

“The new law of evolution in corporate America seems to be survival of the unfittest. Well, in my book you either do it right or you get eliminated. In the last seven deals that I've been involved with, there were 2.5 million stockholders who have made a pretax profit of 12 billion dollars. Thank you. I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a...” (continue)(continue reading)
Michael Douglas - Gordon Gekko

What did you do? Wake up this morning and say: “today, I'm going to ruin a man's life"?

Michael Douglas - Jack T. Colton

“You see that building? I bought that building ten years ago. My first real estate deal. Sold it two years later, made an $800,000 profit. It was better than sex. At the time I thought that was all the money in the world. Now it's a day's pay.”

Michael Douglas - Gordon Gekko

“I'm a teacher, not a Holiday Inn.”
Michael Douglas - Prof. Grady Tripp

“- Dan Gallagher: Look, Alex, I like you. And maybe if I wasn't with somebody else, I'd be with you. But I am.
- Alex Forrest: Please don't justify yourself, it's pathetic. You'd tell me to fuck off, I'd have more respect for you.
- Dan Gallagher: All right, then fuck off.”
Michael Douglas - Dan Gallagher

“- Jack: I thought you said you wanted to sail around the world with me?
- Joan: Well, I do, but, but not all of it this week. I mean, Jack, this is just becoming a blur. Exotic ports. And great parties. And spectacular sunsets. It's not enough.”
Michael Douglas - Jack
Kathleen Turner - Joan

“- Col. John Henry Patterson: Have you ever failed?
- Charles Remington: Only at life.”
Val Kilmer - Col. John Henry Patterson
Michael Douglas - Charles Remington

“My life was shaped because someone invented gunpowder, and that's what took me around the world. But the memory that I wanted, that was the family that I lost.”
Michael Douglas - Charles Remington

“- Nick: I'm working my ass off, I'm off the sauce, I even stopped smoking.
- Beth Garner: How's not smoking?
- Nick: It sucks.”
Michael Douglas - Detective Nick Curran
Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn - Dr. Beth Garner

“- Hannah Green: Grady, you know how in class you're always telling us that writers make choices?
- Prof. Grady Tripp: Yeah.
- Hannah Green: And even though you're book is really beautiful, I mean, amazingly beautiful, it's... it's at times... it's... very detailed. You know, with the genealogies of everyone's horses, and the dental records, and...” (continue)(continue reading)
Katie Holmes - Hannah Green
Michael Douglas - Prof. Grady Tripp

“- Alex Forrest: Why is it that all the interesting guys are always married?
- Dan Gallagher: Or maybe that's why you find them interesting, the fact you can't have them.”
Glenn Close - Alex Forrest
Michael Douglas - Dan Gallagher

“At least you're thinking. Most people don't think, James.”
Michael Douglas - Prof. Grady Tripp

“- Sheila Bryant: Can I sit on your lap?
- Zach: Do you always come on like this?
- Sheila Bryant: No. Sometimes I'm aggressive.”
Vicki Frederick - Sheila Bryant
Michael Douglas - Zach

“- Zach: What made you start dancing?
- Diana Morales: Who knows? I'm Puerto Rican. We jump around a lot.”
Michael Douglas - Zach
Yamil Borges - Diana Morales

“I'm talking about liquid. Rich enough to have your own jet. Rich enough not to waste time. Fifty, a hundred million dollars, buddy. A player. Or nothing.”

Michael Douglas - Gordon Gekko

“I appreciate your curiosity but my agenda doesn't concern you.”

Michael Douglas - Steven Taylor

“You and I are the same, Darien. We are smart enough not to buy in to the oldest myth running; love. A fiction created by people to keep them from jumping out of windows.”
Michael Douglas - Gordon Gekko