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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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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
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Bernard Herschel Schwartz
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I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.
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On kissing Marilyn Monroe: It's like kissing Hitler.
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You wanna know the secret of life? The saliva of young girls.
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I like Vegas for its spontaneity.
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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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Marilyn Monro wasn't the brightest person in the world - that didn't make a difference one way or the other - but she was giving and kind. And that's what got her in trouble. She was so giving and kind to all of these people she met that she found herself doing these things that she didn't want to do.
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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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At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.
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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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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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Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.
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Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
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Hollywood ... the most sensational merry-go-around ever built.
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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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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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If you know how to live in Vegas you can have the best time.
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While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.
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