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If you don’t know your gift, you’ve got no lift.

Tony Curtis

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

Friend Good Life Used
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.
TONY CURTIS

Intriguing Powerful Screen Very
Someone 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 CURTIS

Kissing Questions Someone Stupid
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 CURTIS

Moving Real Summer
You wanna know the secret of life? The saliva of young girls.
TONY CURTIS

Girl Life Secret
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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Character Moving Play
I don’t know what organically grown chickens are; I’ve never seen one.
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Chickens Country Knows Organically People
Every movie I’ve been in has ended up on television.
TONY CURTIS

Ended Every Movie Television
The service meant so much to me. You don’t know privileged I feel and how lucky I am to have served.
TONY CURTIS

Feels Knows Lucky
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.
TONY CURTIS

Alzheimer's Country Disease People
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.
TONY CURTIS

Cities Different Downstairs Moving
I enjoy being recognized whatever environment I’m in.
TONY CURTIS

Enjoy Environment Recognized
When I was in bed with Marilyn Monroe, I was never sure before, during or after, where her mind was.
TONY CURTIS

Bed Before Mind Sure
But my longevity is due to my good timing.
TONY CURTIS

Country Dues Longevity People Timing
While you’re doing it, you don’t really know what you’re doing.
TONY CURTIS

Doing Knows Rafting
At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.
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Around Seeing World
I like Vegas for its spontaneity.
TONY CURTIS

Country People Spontaneity
The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.
TONY CURTIS

Acting Government School
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 CURTIS

Overcoming Problems Trying World
My 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 CURTIS

Little Share Things Wife
I wouldn’t be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.
TONY CURTIS

Enough Funny Love Wife
If you don’t know your gift, you’ve got no lift.
TONY CURTIS

Gift Knows Lifts
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.
TONY CURTIS

Daughter Girl Mother
Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
TONY CURTIS

Opera Singers Song
If you know how to live in Vegas you can have the best time.
TONY CURTIS

Best Country People Time Vegas

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