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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
Writer
New York City
New York
Bernard Schwartz
Bernard Herschel Schwartz
Anthony Curtis
Dreamed
Seeing
Around
Back
World
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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 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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I like Vegas for its spontaneity.
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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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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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My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.
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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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While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.
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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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Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.
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Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.
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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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I've just opened a show in Florida, although I also have many pieces on display around the world.
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The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.
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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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On kissing Marilyn Monroe: It's like kissing Hitler.
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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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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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Every movie I've been in has ended up on television.
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