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On kissing Marilyn Monroe: It's like kissing Hitler.
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
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New York City
New York
Bernard Schwartz
Bernard Herschel Schwartz
Anthony Curtis
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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 government gave me enough money to go to acting school.
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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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At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.
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Hollywood ... the most sensational merry-go-around ever built.
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Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.
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Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
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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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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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While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.
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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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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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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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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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But my longevity is due to my good timing.
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Every movie I've been in has ended up on television.
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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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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 was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.
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