Quotes By Tony Curtis

I look at everything in an artistic way.

The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.

My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.

I like Vegas for its spontaneity.

Every movie I've been in has ended up on television.

The service meant so much to me. You don't know privileged I feel and how lucky I am to have served.

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.

I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.

I enjoy being recognized whatever environment I'm in.

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.

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

For instance, I always have one hanging in Budapest in the mayors office.

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.

I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring.

I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.

Everywhere I go in the world, people know me and recognise me and really show affection for me.

Yes I'm still working, but my life's no longer filled with it.

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.

The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know.

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

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.

At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.

I've made 122 movies, and I daresay there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day.

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.

It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

I've just opened a show in Florida, although I also have many pieces on display around the world.

Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.

While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.