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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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Experience
Art

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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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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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Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
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While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.
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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've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.
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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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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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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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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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My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.
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But my longevity is due to my good timing.
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At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.
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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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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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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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Every movie I've been in has ended up on television.
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