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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
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Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.
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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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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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Every movie I've been in has ended up on television.
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On kissing Marilyn Monroe: It's like kissing Hitler.
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Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
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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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But my longevity is due to my good timing.
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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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