While you’re doing it, you don’t really know what you’re doing.
TONY CURTISI used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I’m so depressed, or life is terrible.
More Tony Curtis Quotes
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The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.
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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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If you know how to live in Vegas you can have the best time.
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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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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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Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
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I like Vegas for its spontaneity.
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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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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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I enjoy being recognized whatever environment I’m in.
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Every movie I’ve been in has ended up on television.
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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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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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But my longevity is due to my good timing.
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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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