Quotes from Tony Curtis

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

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.

Every line, everything you do in life, should have a motive and a reason. Every one of us should have a motive and a reason, most of the time, to accomplish all the things that we want in life.

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

My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.

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.

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

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.

We were scared. I guess when you're in your twenties, that's how it is. You've got an adult body, but you're trying to make it work with a kid's emotions. With Marilyn and me, it was worse. Our kid emotions didn't even work. We'd been treated too poorly.

Looking good is the best revenge.

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

The way I saw it, people are like leaves that have fallen into a swift-moving stream. As the leaves get carried downstream, some are caught in rocks and never get any farther. Some are swept to shore. Others - the lucky ones - keep going, missing the stones, staying clear of the shore, staying afloat until they reach the river delta and break free into open water.

Jeg delte værelse med nogle kommende skuespillere, da jeg først landede i Hollywood. Hvad så? Det betyder ikke, at jeg sov med dem. Og det betyder ikke, at jeg ikke gjorde det - selv om jeg ikke gjorde.

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

I like Vegas for its spontaneity.

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.

I look at everything in an artistic way.

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

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

It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.

Art is an emotional experience

Necking with Marilyn Monroe is like kissing Hitler