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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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On kissing Marilyn Monroe: It's like kissing Hitler.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.
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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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My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.
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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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Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
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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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Art is an emotional experience
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You wanna know the secret of life? The saliva of young girls.
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