Quotes By Tony Curtis

I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I like Vegas for its spontaneity.

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.

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.

I don't know what organically grown chickens are; I've never seen one.

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.

But my longevity is due to my good timing.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

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

I look at everything in an artistic way.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.