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 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.
More Tony Curtis Quotes
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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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If you know how to live in Vegas you can have the best time.
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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?”
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If you don’t know your gift, you’ve got no lift.
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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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I like Vegas for its spontaneity.
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I enjoy being recognized whatever environment I’m in.
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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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While you’re doing it, you don’t really know what you’re doing.
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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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Every movie I’ve been in has ended up on television.
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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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I wouldn’t be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.
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