Michael Douglas

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Our economy is increasingly dependent on the success and integrity of the financial markets.

I don't smile a lot in my pictures. I'm always so... grim.

I grew up on the East Coast and was going to go to an Ivy League School, but at the last minute I decided to be a hippy. It was the protest movements on the war, peace movements were going on at our university. It was a fantastic time.

Learning patience was not an easy lesson.

I think the quality of television, given the amount of time you have, how short you have, is proportionally so much better than most movies.