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I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.

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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
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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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I like Vegas for its spontaneity.
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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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Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
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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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But my longevity is due to my good timing.
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The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.
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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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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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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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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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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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Hollywood ... the most sensational merry-go-around ever built.
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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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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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I've just opened a show in Florida, although I also have many pieces on display around the world.
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Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.
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