Kirk Douglas Movie Quotes & Lines – 59 Classics (+ Audio)

Updated: Apr 4, 2025

Memorable movie quotes of Kirk Douglas (December 9, 1916 – February 5, 2020), with short sound clips, available in MP3 and WAV formats.

1 Fear is making you forget your empty stomach.

As Ulysses in Ulysses (1954)

2 There's a part of me that loves the familiar, the end of the journey, the harbor, the cooking fires at home. There's always the other part. That part loves the voyage, the open sea, storms, strange shapes of uncharted islands, demons, giants.

As Ulysses in Ulysses (1954)

3 Quick, get some wax and stop up the ears of all the men. Tell them not to look to the right nor to the left but to row. Row for their lives. It's the only thing that will save them. Hurry!

As Ulysses in Ulysses (1954)

4 You witch! While I slept you turned a band of heroes into swine. -It was much easier to do than you think.

Ulysses (Kirk Douglas), Circe From The Odyssey (Kirk Douglas) in Ulysses (1954)

5 Six months? Has it been that long? Seems like a single summer's evening.

As Ulysses in Ulysses (1954)

6 I no longer see myself falling in battle, or in the fury of a storm. It will take much less. A puff of cool air, a sudden chill one night.

As Ulysses in Ulysses (1954)

7 But even so, this vulnerable mass of fears has dared to battle with a god, and has not yet been defeated.

As Ulysses in Ulysses (1954)

8 You're drunk. -I've had a lot to drink, but I'm not drunk.

Barbara Stanwyck as Martha Ivers; Kirk Douglas as Walter O'Neil in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

9 You're very fond of him, aren't you? You wouldn't want anything to happen to him. Does he feel the same about you?

As Walter O'Neil in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

10 If there's to be a discussion, I'll need another drink. Otherwise, I shall neither hear, nor be coherent when, and if, I reply to whatever it is you're about to say.

As Walter O'Neil in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

Kirk Douglas Movie Quotes & Lines – 59 Classics (+ Audio)

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