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Hollywood ... the most sensational merry-go-around ever built.

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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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Hollywood

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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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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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Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
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Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.
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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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Art is an emotional experience
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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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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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I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.
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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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On kissing Marilyn Monroe: It's like kissing Hitler.
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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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Every movie I've been in has ended up on television.
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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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At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.
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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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I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.
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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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