Michael Douglas has revealed that his son Dylan and daughter Carys wants to follow in his footsteps.
"My son and my daughter both want to be in the business. They both want to act and I've told them to be ready for rejection," Michael revealed to ET. "That's the one part I always warn everybody starting out in the business. You have to be able to take a hit and keep on going no matter what."
"It's hard, but you have to deal with it because it's going to happen," he added. "I experienced lots of rejection in my career and it's never easy. You have to keep on going and someone will say yes."
Michael said that it's a cut-throat business that is hard to break into and even though his children would have more advantage given they're very famous parents and their A-list status in the industry, it still won't be easy for them.
The 71-year-old, actor also said his career success and endurance has been built on focusing on the work.
Douglas told Variety: "My career has been based on the material and it's always been based on what I think emotionally moves me, what makes me laugh and makes me angry."
In August 2010, it was in the news that Michael Douglas was suffering from throat cancer (later revealed to have actually been tongue cancer), and had to undergo five months of chemotherapy and radiation treatment. He later confirmed that the cancer was at stage IV, the most advanced stage.
"Well, it's good to be alive," Douglas said to ET. "You never anticipate that. That was a workout. It was one of those situations where I was aware of something being wrong and had two or three misdiagnoses and spent a year before I went in and found out it was stage 4 cancer."
Recently the couple were celebrated their 15-year wedding anniversary. Michael revealed that he loves Catherine more that he ever has.
Michael and Catherine work hard for their relationship to last that long.
