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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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Seeing
Around
Back
World
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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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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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My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.
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On kissing Marilyn Monroe: It's like kissing Hitler.
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The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.
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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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While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.
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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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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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Hollywood ... the most sensational merry-go-around ever built.
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Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
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I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.
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