Tony Curtis Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I've always believed that service to others is rent we pay for our time on this planet.”
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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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“On kissing Marilyn Monroe: It's like kissing Hitler.”
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“Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.”
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“If you know how to live in Vegas you can have the best time.”
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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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“Hollywood ... the most sensational merry-go-around ever built.”
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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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“That so many people respond to me is fabulous. It is like having a kind of Alzheimer's disease, where everyone knows you and you don't know anyone.”
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“You wanna know the secret of life? The saliva of young girls.”
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“I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.”
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“While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.”
-- Tony CurtisSource : Interview with Randy Shulman, www.metroweekly.com. August 21, 2002.
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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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“The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.”
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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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“I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.”
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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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“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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“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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“Jack Lemmon is my best friend and he's a very wonderful actor. A very talented, very funny man. A lovely man. We're like brothers! We are gifts to each other. He's such a fun personality. There will only ever be one Jack Lemmon.”
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“My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.”
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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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“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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“I've just opened a show in Florida, although I also have many pieces on display around the world.”
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“The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know.”
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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 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.”
-- Tony Curtis
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