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I like Vegas for its spontaneity.

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Tony Curtis
Age: 85 †
Born: 1925
Born: June 3
Died: 2010
Died: September 29
Actor
Film Actor
Painter
Television Actor
Writer
New York City
New York
Bernard Schwartz
Bernard Herschel Schwartz
Anthony Curtis
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Even on a personal note, my dressing table downstairs is crowded with things, like a mini landscape. It's a city with buildings and towers and roads. There's a pool and a little park. When I move something around it becomes a different tableau.
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But my longevity is due to my good timing.
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They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was disappointed. She'd hoped for second prize - a new stove.
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I've made 122 movies, and I daresay there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day.
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I've just opened a show in Florida, although I also have many pieces on display around the world.
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Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.
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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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Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
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Every movie I've been in has ended up on television.
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You wanna know the secret of life? The saliva of young girls.
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I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.
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Joe: We can't just walk out on her without saying goodbye. Jerry: What? Since when? You usually walk out and leave 'em with nothing but a kick in the teeth. Joe: That's when I was a saxophone player. Now I'm a millionaire.
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Marilyn Monro wasn't the brightest person in the world - that didn't make a difference one way or the other - but she was giving and kind. And that's what got her in trouble. She was so giving and kind to all of these people she met that she found herself doing these things that she didn't want to do.
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Acting is something that we all practice at some time in our lives. We're different people to our mothers, fathers, our friends, people that we hung out together with, people that didn't like us or we didn't like them. We readjust ourselves.
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It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.
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I feel strongly that we, all of us, are brothers and sisters, and nothing interferes with that except our education, our background, where we grew up and how we should do it. If you eliminated all those negatives and gave us an open view of what life would be like, it would be different.
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Hollywood ... the most sensational merry-go-around ever built.
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I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.
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On kissing Marilyn Monroe: It's like kissing Hitler.
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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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