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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. "

Tony Curtis

Woman

Weekend

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" The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know. "

" 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. "

" I like Vegas for its spontaneity. "

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Vegas

Spontaneity

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

" I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable. "

" 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. "

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

Tony Curtis

World

People

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

Tony Curtis

Know

Service

" 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. "

" Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life. "

Tony Curtis

Painting

Therapy

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

" The government gave me enough money to go to acting school. "

Tony Curtis

Government

Acting

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

" I look at everything in an artistic way. "

" Yes I'm still working, but my life's no longer filled with it. "

" My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx. "

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

" But my longevity is due to my good timing. "

" Its not age as much as the experiences I have had. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Every movie I've been in has ended up on television. "

Tony Curtis

Every

Television

" 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. "

" But where there is no art show, I would still be painting. "

" While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing. "

" 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

Care

Opportunities

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

" For instance, I always have one hanging in Budapest in the mayors office. "