The service meant so much to me. You don’t know privileged I feel and how lucky I am to have served.
TONY CURTISThe service meant so much to me. You don’t know privileged I feel and how lucky I am to have served.
TONY CURTISI wouldn’t be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.
TONY CURTISI 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 CURTISWe’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 CURTISI used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I’m so depressed, or life is terrible.
TONY CURTISWhile you’re doing it, you don’t really know what you’re doing.
TONY CURTISMy life is very full; my wife makes it so. I’m 82 years old and I’m having the best time I’ve ever had in my life. I want to share that with all of you. Find a way to do that, find a way to be at peace with yourself, to enjoy the little things in life. Make them your own.
TONY CURTISThe government gave me enough money to go to acting school.
TONY CURTISI don’t know what organically grown chickens are; I’ve never seen one.
TONY CURTISThat 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 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.
TONY CURTISBurt 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.
TONY CURTISAt 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.
TONY CURTISSomeone said to me, “Hey, what’s it like kissing Marilyn Monroe?” I said, “It’s like kissing Hitler. What are you doing asking me such a stupid question?”
TONY CURTISYou wanna know the secret of life? The saliva of young girls.
TONY CURTISI like Vegas for its spontaneity.
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