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 CURTISWhen I was in bed with Marilyn Monroe, I was never sure before, during or after, where her mind was.
More Tony Curtis Quotes
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Every movie I’ve been in has ended up on television.
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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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If you don’t know your gift, you’ve got no lift.
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I like Vegas for its spontaneity.
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I enjoy being recognized whatever environment I’m in.
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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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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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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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I don’t know what organically grown chickens are; I’ve never seen one.
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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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I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I’m so depressed, or life is terrible.
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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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At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.
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Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
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While you’re doing it, you don’t really know what you’re doing.
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