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I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.
Tony Curtis
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Tony Curtis
Age: 85 †
Born: 1925
Born: June 3
Died: 2010
Died: September 29
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Film Actor
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Television Actor
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New York City
New York
Bernard Schwartz
Bernard Herschel Schwartz
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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've just opened a show in Florida, although I also have many pieces on display around the world.
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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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The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.
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My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.
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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've made 122 movies, and I daresay there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day.
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You wanna know the secret of life? The saliva of young girls.
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Art is an emotional experience
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Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.
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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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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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On kissing Marilyn Monroe: It's like kissing Hitler.
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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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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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Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.
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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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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'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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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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