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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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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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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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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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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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While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.
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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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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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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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Hollywood ... the most sensational merry-go-around ever built.
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I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.
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Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.
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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 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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Art is an emotional experience
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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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Every movie I've been in has ended up on television.
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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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My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.
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We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.
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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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