Michael Douglas Quotes

I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into.

I don't have a muscle body. I don't have a chiseled frame.

I love getting into physical shape for a film; it makes me feel more like what the character needs to be.

My mom was a professional fitness competitor, so I go into the gym with her. I train with my dad and mother. It's embarrassing, because she's really strong.

I've always been into bodybuilding and keeping in shape, and I just challenge myself to see if I can continue to make improvements.

Dude, everybody wants to be Andre 3000. He's got abs for days. How does that guy get so ripped?

I do a bit of work on my bum, but, like, I don't have a Dylan Bruce bum.

I want to do an action movie where they say, 'Go the gym and get ripped like Linda Hamilton.'

I pretty much spend most of my time in the gym bulking up and staying fit and putting muscle on so I can play the part of Luke Cage, but I've never been a gym rat.

It's not really in my genes to be walking around looking like a body builder.

You often see him Ronaldo topless and his physique is awesome. It drives everyone on and we all want to have a body like his.

There is no food in the world that gives you a better feeling of walking around with veins bulging out, six-pack abs. It's the best feeling in the world.

I have an excellent body, not an extra gram of fat. A washboard stomach.

When you look at my astonishing physique you probably think to yourself, This kid must eat nothing but molten steel. That's a common misconception.

It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also I wanted that, if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did, which was kill people for a living. I thought the only way to do that was to work out and get fit and buff and get physically into shape.

When I was 16, I was like any other boy at that age who dreams of having a good physique.

I try to do Pilates when I can all year around and I also like to swim a lot. I also have a trainer that kicks my butt when it's needed.

I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.

I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy.

Men work on their bodies. They want to be looked at.

I'm actually going to the gym, working on getting not fatter, just a bit bulkier.

I basically go to the gym three times a week to do weight training for one or two hours.

I learned how to get in shape without getting certain muscles too big that make you look like a meathead.

I think I'm past any window where I'm suddenly going to become surprisingly ripped so that people go, 'Oh, my God, what happened to you?'

I had to wear that suit, so I put in my required time in the gym. But I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now.