I enjoy being recognized whatever environment I’m in.
TONY CURTISI enjoy being recognized whatever environment I’m in.
TONY CURTISIf you don’t know your gift, you’ve got no lift.
TONY CURTISI used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I’m so depressed, or life is terrible.
TONY CURTISEven 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 CURTISWhen I was in bed with Marilyn Monroe, I was never sure before, during or after, where her mind was.
TONY CURTISWhile you’re doing it, you don’t really know what you’re doing.
TONY CURTISYou wanna know the secret of life? The saliva of young girls.
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 CURTISThe government gave me enough money to go to acting school.
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 CURTISThe service meant so much to me. You don’t know privileged I feel and how lucky I am to have served.
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 CURTISLike an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
TONY CURTISI don’t know what organically grown chickens are; I’ve never seen one.
TONY CURTISIt is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.
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.
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