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At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.
Tony Curtis
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Tony Curtis
Age: 85 †
Born: 1925
Born: June 3
Died: 2010
Died: September 29
Actor
Film Actor
Painter
Television Actor
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New York City
New York
Bernard Schwartz
Bernard Herschel Schwartz
Anthony Curtis
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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'm world famous, everywhere I go there are people who love me because of I've been able to bring them some joy from the movies I've made.
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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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The service meant so much to me. You don't know privileged I feel and how lucky I am to have served.
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I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.
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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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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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You wanna know the secret of life? The saliva of young girls.
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My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.
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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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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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Every movie I've been in has ended up on television.
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But my longevity is due to my good timing.
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Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.
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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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We're all brought up in a world that isn't the best place for us to be in once in a while. There are so many problems and we try to overcome them all.
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Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
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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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While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.
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I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.
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