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Quotables #73: The Collective Cinema of Michael Douglas
Continuing our Collective Cinema Quotable game, we've decided to pick the movies of Michael Douglas. Each of the following quotes or snippets of dialogue are spoken by Douglas. Your job is to guess which movies they're from.
Douglas: You're so sad. You know that, Alex? Lonely and very sad.
Woman: Don't you ever pity me, you smug bastard.
Douglas: I'll pity you... I'll pity you. I'll pity you because you're sick.
Woman: Why? Because I won't allow you to treat me like some slut you can just bang a couple of times and throw in the garbage?
Movie 1:
Douglas: The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth - five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work; two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons, and what I do, stock and real estate speculation. It's bullshit. You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own. We make the rules, pal. The news, war, peace, famine, upheaval, the price per paper clip. We pick that rabbit out of the hat while everybody sits out there wondering how the hell we did it. Now, you're not naive enough to think we're living in a democracy, are you, buddy? It's the free market. And you're a part of it. You've got that killer instinct. Stick around, pal. I've still got a lot to teach you.
Movie 2:
Man: You have a deeper love of this country than any man I've ever known. And I want to know what it says to you that in the past seven weeks, 59 percent of Americans have begun to question your patriotism.
Douglas: Look, if the people want to listen to -
Man: They don't have a choice! Bob Rumson is the only one doing the talking! People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership. They're so thirsty for it they'll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there's no water, they'll drink the sand.
Douglas: Lewis, we've had presidents who were beloved, who couldn't find a coherent sentence with two hands and a flashlight. People don't drink the sand because they're thirsty. They drink the sand because they don't know the difference.
Movie 3:
Man: Can I ask you a question?
Douglas: Yeah, James.
Man: What are we going to do with... it?
Douglas: I don't know. I'm still trying to figure out how to tell the chancellor I murdered her husband's dog.
Man: You?
Douglas: Trust me, James, when the family pet's been assassinated, the owner doesn't want to hear one of her students was the trigger man.
Man: Does she want to hear it was one of her professors?
Douglas: ...I've got tenure.
Movie 4:
Man: This is for you.
Douglas: You shouldn't have.
Man: What do you get for the man who has... everything?
Douglas: "Consumer Recreation Services." Well, I do have golf clubs.
Man: Call that number.
Douglas: Why?
Man: Make your life... fun.
Douglas: Fun.
Man: You know what that is... uh, you've seen other people have it.
Movie 5:

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