Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
Tony Curtis
I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.
Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.
I've made 122 movies, and I daresay there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day.
I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.
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've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.
While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.
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.
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 can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring.
If you know how to live in Vegas you can have the best time.
I like Vegas for its spontaneity.
My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.
I've just opened a show in Florida, although I also have many pieces on display around the world.
At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.
I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.
It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.
I don't know what organically grown chickens are; I've never seen one.
Yes I'm still working, but my life's no longer filled with it.
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.
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.
Every movie I've been in has ended up on television.
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.
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 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.
Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.
I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.
I look at everything in an artistic way.
But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.
The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know.
But my longevity is due to my good timing.
The service meant so much to me. You don't know privileged I feel and how lucky I am to have served.
The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.
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.
