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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
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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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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 was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.
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I like Vegas for its spontaneity.
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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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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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While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.
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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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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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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 used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.
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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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Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.
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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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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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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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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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