Tony Curtis Quotes

"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
(Related: Competition, Weekend, Woman)

"Yes I'm still working, but my life's no longer filled with it."
- Tony Curtis
(Related: Life)

"The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know."
- Tony Curtis
(Related: Business, Mind)

"The service meant so much to me. You don't know privileged I feel and how lucky I am to have served."
- Tony Curtis
(Related: Service)

"While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing."
- Tony Curtis

"Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life."
- Tony Curtis
(Related: Life, Painting, Therapy)

"But my longevity is due to my good timing."
- Tony Curtis
(Related: Longevity)

"But where there is no art show, I would still be painting."
- Tony Curtis
(Related: Art, Painting)

"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

"The government gave me enough money to go to acting school."
- Tony Curtis
(Related: Government, Money, Acting, School)

"I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring."
- Tony Curtis

"I enjoy being recognized whatever environment I'm in."
- Tony Curtis
(Related: Being, Environment)

"At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back."
- Tony Curtis
(Related: World)

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

"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
(Related: Movies, Success, Life, Opportunity, Career, Now, Painting)

"For instance, I always have one hanging in Budapest in the mayors office."
- Tony Curtis
(Related: Office)

"Everywhere I go in the world, people know me and recognise me and really show affection for me."
- Tony Curtis
(Related: People, Affection, World)

"Every movie I've been in has ended up on television."
- Tony Curtis
(Related: Television)

"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."
- Tony Curtis
(Related: Mother, Care, Navy)

"I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific."
- Tony Curtis
(Related: Navy, Service)

"I like Vegas for its spontaneity."
- Tony Curtis
(Related: Spontaneity)

"I look at everything in an artistic way."
- Tony Curtis

"I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible."
- Tony Curtis
(Related: Life, Depression, Friends, Saying)

"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
(Related: Career, Honor, Moments, Public, Want, Will)

"It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move."
- Tony Curtis
(Related: Play)

"I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable."
- Tony Curtis

"My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx."
- Tony Curtis
(Related: Navy, World)

"Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint."
- Tony Curtis
(Related: Opera, Song)

"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."
- Tony Curtis

"If you know how to live in Vegas you can have the best time."
- Tony Curtis
(Related: Time)

"I've made 122 movies, and I daresay there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day."
- Tony Curtis
(Related: Movies, Day, World)

"I've just opened a show in Florida, although I also have many pieces on display around the world."
- Tony Curtis
(Related: World)

"I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies."
- Tony Curtis
(Related: Movies, Years)

"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."
- Tony Curtis
(Related: Love, Movies, People, Famous, Joy, World)

"I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife."
- Tony Curtis
(Related: Wife, Old, Woman)

"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."
- Tony Curtis
(Related: Day, Paris, Summer, Will)

"Its not age as much as the experiences I have had."
- Tony Curtis
(Related: Age)