Veteran actor Michael Douglas regrets not maintaining a journal so that he could later remind himself about his career that has spanned 50 years as well as his marriage to Hollywood diva Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Douglas, 74, was honoured at the Paley Centre and later in a conversation with Juju Chang, he reflected back at his both professional and personal life, according to the Hollywood Reporter. "If you're not careful, you don't really cherish that moment or that time and next thing you wake up and its 50 years later and you go, 'Whoah what happened?'" Douglas said.