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• ‟ No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

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• ‟ Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.

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• ‟ My first job was on Broadway. Then I went into the Navy. When I came out of the Navy, I went back to Broadway and a friend of mine, Lauren Bacall, was in Hollywood filming with Humphrey Bogart. She told one of her producers I was great in my play, and he saw it and cast me in 'The Strange Love of Martha Ivers'.

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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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• ‟ I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is play Spider Solitaire. And I don't have a cell phone.

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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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• ‟ I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.

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• ‟ Fifteen years ago, I suffered a stroke, which caused me to lose my speech. Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back? I work with a speech therapist twice a week.

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• ‟ Sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say, 'You're bright!' They're actually surprised I might be bright.

  - Kirk Douglas