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Tony Curtis [1925-2010] American

Rank: 102
Actor, Film actor

Tony Curtis was an American film actor whose career spanned 6 decades but was mostly popular in the 1950s and early 1960s. He acted in more than 100 films in roles covering a wide range of genres, from light comedy to serious drama.

Age, Famous, Great, Movies

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Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.	Age	101
It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are.	Great	102
I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.		103
I enlisted when I was a boy. The Navy looked after me like my mother. It fed me, took care of me and gave me wonderful opportunities.		104
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.		105
I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.		106
It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.		107
If you know how to live in Vegas you can have the best time.		108
At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.		109
But my longevity is due to my good timing.		110
Everywhere I go in the world, people know me and recognise me and really show affection for me.		111
While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.		112
I don't know what organically grown chickens are; I've never seen one.		113
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.		114
Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.		115
I look at everything in an artistic way.		116
I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring.		117
I like Vegas for its spontaneity.		118
The service meant so much to me. You don't know privileged I feel and how lucky I am to have served.		119
I'm world famous, everywhere I go there are people who love me because of I've been able to bring them some joy from the movies I've made.	Famous	120
I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.		121
Every movie I've been in has ended up on television.		122
I've made 122 movies, and I daresay there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day.	Movies	123
Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.		124
I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.		125
My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.		126
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.		201
They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was disappointed. She'd hoped for second prize - a new stove.		202
I enjoy being recognized whatever environment I'm in.		203
I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career.		204
But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.		205
I've just opened a show in Florida, although I also have many pieces on display around the world.		206
For instance, I always have one hanging in Budapest in the mayors office.		207
The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know.		208
Yes I'm still working, but my life's no longer filled with it.		209
The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.		210
I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.		211
Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.		212

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