"The people who work in Wall Street still look up to Gordon Gekko. He's sort of a guru." — Michael Douglas

Like my father, like most actors, I was a pretty ambitious guy.

Actors, I have to say, most of the time, they elevate things; they don't screw things up most of the time.

My own parents divorced when I was six. I was raised with my brother Joel by our mother on the East Coast, visiting my father in Los Angeles during holidays. When your parents are divorced, you don't know anything else, do you?

Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than the person that's closest to us. And you just gotta remember not to take for granted that person that's closest to you.