Quotes By Tony Curtis

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I like Vegas for its spontaneity.

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.

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.