Tony Curtis's Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I look at everything in an artistic way.

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.

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

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

But my longevity is due to my good timing.

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

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

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

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