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.
TONY CURTISWe 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.
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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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The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.
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I wouldn’t be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.
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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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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.
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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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Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
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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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If you know how to live in Vegas you can have the best time.
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When I was in bed with Marilyn Monroe, I was never sure before, during or after, where her mind was.
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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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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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I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I’m so depressed, or life is terrible.
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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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If you don’t know your gift, you’ve got no lift.
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