Tony Curtis famous quotes

I look at everything in an artistic way.
-- Tony Curtis

#Way #Looks #Artistic

I've always believed that service to others is rent we pay for our time on this planet.
-- Tony Curtis

#Pay #Service To Others #Planets

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.
-- Tony Curtis

#Winning #Weekend #Competition

On kissing Marilyn Monroe: It's like kissing Hitler.
-- Tony Curtis

#Kissing #Culture

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.
-- Tony Curtis

#Way #Painting #Therapy

If you know how to live in Vegas you can have the best time.
-- Tony Curtis

#Vegas #Las Vegas

It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.
-- Tony Curtis

#Moving #Character #Play

Hollywood ... the most sensational merry-go-around ever built.
-- Tony Curtis

#Hollywood #Sensational

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.
-- Tony Curtis

#Goodbye #Player #Justice

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.
-- Tony Curtis

#People #Disease

You wanna know the secret of life? The saliva of young girls.
-- Tony Curtis

#Life #Girl #Secret

I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.
-- Tony Curtis

#Born #Periods

While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.
-- Tony Curtis

The service meant so much to me. You don't know privileged I feel and how lucky I am to have served.
-- Tony Curtis

#Lucky #Feels

The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.
-- Tony Curtis

#School #Government #Acting

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.
-- Tony Curtis

#Opportunity #Careers #Able

I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.
-- Tony Curtis

#Years #Odd #Made

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.
-- Tony Curtis

#People #Joy #World

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.
-- Tony Curtis

#Stars #Knitting #Track

I've made 122 movies, and I daresay there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day.
-- Tony Curtis

#World #Made

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.
-- Tony Curtis

#Brother #Fun #Men

Art is an emotional experience
-- Tony Curtis

#Art #Emotional #Art Is

My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.
-- Tony Curtis

#Navy #World #Bronx

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.
-- Tony Curtis

#Mother #Opportunity #Boys

I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.
-- Tony Curtis

#Navy #Tenderness

I like Vegas for its spontaneity.
-- Tony Curtis

#Las Vegas #Vegas #Spontaneity

I've just opened a show in Florida, although I also have many pieces on display around the world.
-- Tony Curtis

#Florida #Pieces #World

The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know.
-- Tony Curtis

#Mind #Twisted #Site

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.
-- Tony Curtis

#Moving #Cities #Different

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

#Summer #Real #Moving

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.
-- Tony Curtis

#Girl #Daughter #Mother

At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.
-- Tony Curtis

#World #Around The World

I enjoy being recognized whatever environment I'm in.
-- Tony Curtis

#Environment #Enjoy

I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring.
-- Tony Curtis

#Waiting #Telephones #Rings

I don't know what organically grown chickens are; I've never seen one.
-- Tony Curtis

#Chickens

Everywhere I go in the world, people know me and recognise me and really show affection for me.
-- Tony Curtis

#People #World #Affection

Every movie I've been in has ended up on television.
-- Tony Curtis

#Television

I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.
-- Tony Curtis

#Funny Love #Wife #Enough

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.
-- Tony Curtis

#Art #Painting #Shows

But my longevity is due to my good timing.
-- Tony Curtis

#Timing #Longevity

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.
-- Tony Curtis

#Good Friend #Life Is #Used

Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.
-- Tony Curtis

#Age

I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career.
-- Tony Curtis

#Careers #Honor #Special

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
-- Tony Curtis

#Song #Singers #Able