Zitat des Tages von Tony Curtis:
I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.
The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.
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.
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.
My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.
Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.
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.
The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know.
For instance, I always have one hanging in Budapest in the mayors office.
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.
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.
I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring.
Every movie I've been in has ended up on television.
But my longevity is due to my good timing.
I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.
But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.
I enjoy being recognized whatever environment I'm in.
I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.
I look at everything in an artistic way.
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've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.
It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.
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.
I've made 122 movies, and I daresay there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day.
Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
I don't know what organically grown chickens are; I've never seen one.
I've just opened a show in Florida, although I also have many pieces on display around the world.
Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.
I like Vegas for its spontaneity.
Yes I'm still working, but my life's no longer filled with it.
While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.