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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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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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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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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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While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.
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Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.
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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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The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.
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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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Hollywood ... the most sensational merry-go-around ever built.
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On kissing Marilyn Monroe: It's like kissing Hitler.
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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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At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.
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My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.
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I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.
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Every movie I've been in has ended up on television.
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Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.
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I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.
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But my longevity is due to my good timing.
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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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