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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.

  Tony Curtis

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

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• If you know how to live in Vegas you can have the best time.

  Tony Curtis

  Vegas, Know How, Knows

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• 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.

  Tony Curtis

  Weekend, Winning, Competition

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

  Tony Curtis

  People, World, Affection

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• My life is very full; my wife makes it so. I'm 82 years old and I'm having the best time I've ever had in my life. I want to share that with all of you. Find a way to do that, find a way to be at peace with yourself, to enjoy the little things in life. Make them your own.

  Tony Curtis

  Wife, Little Things, Share

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• 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.

  Tony Curtis

  Careers, Honor, Special

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

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  Waiting, Telephones, Rings

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

  Tony Curtis

  Television

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• 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.

  Tony Curtis

  Opportunity, Careers, Able

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

  Tony Curtis

  World, Made, Mines

  "Tony Curtis dies aged 85" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2010.

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• I enjoy being recognized whatever environment I'm in.

  Tony Curtis

  Environment, Enjoy

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• 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.

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  People, Joy, World

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• I like Vegas for its spontaneity.

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  Vegas, Las Vegas, Spontaneity

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

  Tony Curtis

  World, Around The World, Seeing

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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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  Alzheimer's, People, Disease

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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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  Trying, Overcoming, World

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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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.

  Tony Curtis

  Powerful, Intriguing, Very Powerful

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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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.

  Tony Curtis

  Moving, Cities, Different

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

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  Chickens, Knows

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

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  School, Government, Acting

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• Hollywood ... the most sensational merry-go-around ever built.

  Tony Curtis

  Hollywood, Sensational, Built

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

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  Navy, Pacific, Tenderness

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• When I was in bed with Marilyn Monroe, I was never sure before, during or after, where her mind was.

  Tony Curtis

  Mind, Bed

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• On kissing Marilyn Monroe: It's like kissing Hitler.

  Tony Curtis

  Kissing, Culture

  Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, The Filmgoer's Book of Quotes (1973)

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• Art is an emotional experience

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  Art, Emotional, Art Is

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