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I enlisted when I was a boy. The Navy looked after me like my mother. It fed me, took care of me and gave me wonderful opportunities.

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Tony Curtis
Age: 85 †
Born: 1925
Born: June 3
Died: 2010
Died: September 29
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New York City
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Bernard Schwartz
Bernard Herschel Schwartz
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I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.
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It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are.
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While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.
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Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.
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I will always remember this summer day in Paris, when I was to perform a great acrobatic move. I can still see myself stepping on the ring of a packed circus along real performers.
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We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.
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