Tony Curtis Quotes - Page 2

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I enjoy being recognized whatever environment I'm in.

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 like Vegas for its spontaneity.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art is an emotional experience