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Art is an emotional experience

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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
Emotional
Experience
Art

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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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I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.
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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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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 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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At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.
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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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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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The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.
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On kissing Marilyn Monroe: It's like kissing Hitler.
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I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.
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Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.
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You wanna know the secret of life? The saliva of young girls.
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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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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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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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Hollywood ... the most sensational merry-go-around ever built.
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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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