At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.
TONY CURTISIt is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.
More Tony Curtis Quotes
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I enjoy being recognized whatever environment I’m in.
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The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.
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We’re all brought up in a world that isn’t the best place for us to be in once in a while. There are so many problems and we try to overcome them all.
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While you’re doing it, you don’t really know what you’re doing.
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But my longevity is due to my good timing.
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You wanna know the secret of life? The saliva of young girls.
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I wouldn’t be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.
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If you know how to live in Vegas you can have the best time.
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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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Burt Lancaster was a very powerful and intriguing person. That essence of what he was, is the very thing that you and I see on the screen when we watch him.
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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.
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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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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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Every movie I’ve been in has ended up on television.
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