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The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.
Tony Curtis
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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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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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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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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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Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.
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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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I've just opened a show in Florida, although I also have many pieces on display around the world.
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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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Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
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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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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 like Vegas for its spontaneity.
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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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But my longevity is due to my good timing.
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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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