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Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz; June 3, 1925 – September 29, 2010) was an American film actor whose career spanned six decades but who was mostly popular in the 1950s and early 1960s. He acted in more than 100 films in roles covering a wide range of genres, from light comedy to serious drama. In his later years, Curtis made numerous television appearances.

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Jack Lemmon is my best friend and he's a very wonderful actor. A very talented, very funny man. A lovely man. We're like brothers! We are gifts to each other. He's such a fun personality. There will only ever be one Jack Lemmon.

Brother, Friend, Fun, Jack, Men, Personality

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

Culture, Hitler, Kissing, Like, Marilyn

The service meant so much to me. You don't know privileged I feel and how lucky I am to have served.

Feels, Know, Knows, Lucky, Privileged, Service

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.

Essence, Intriguing, Lancaster, Powerful, See, Very Powerful

My parents were Hungarian immigrants; my father was a tailor and we lived in the back of a tailor store. And that was my first inkling of what it was like to be raised in America. It had a profound effect on me - I saw different people coming in all the time with different attitudes and I liked it. And as I grew older, I found that I was able to use something inside of me to get some sympathy if I wanted it. I used to shine shoes, and I would use a waif-like look. I'd get a dime and I'd be as happy as could be.

Attitude, Dime, Father, Inkling, Like, People

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

Life, Painting, Therapy, Way

I've always believed that service to others is rent we pay for our time on this planet.

Pay, Planet, Planets, Rent, Service, Service To Others

I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.

Born, Enviable, Period, Periods, Worked

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

Caught, Dead, Enough, Funny Love, Wife

While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.

Know, Knows, Rafting

I enjoy being recognized whatever environment I'm in.

Enjoy, Environment, Recognized

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

Around The World, Back, Dreamed, Seeing, World

I feel strongly that we, all of us, are brothers and sisters, and nothing interferes with that except our education, our background, where we grew up and how we should do it. If you eliminated all those negatives and gave us an open view of what life would be like, it would be different.

Background, Brother, Brothers And Sisters, Different, Sisters, View

I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.

130, Made, Movies, Odd, Years

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

Built, Hollywood, Sensational

Acting is something that we all practice at some time in our lives. We're different people to our mothers, fathers, our friends, people that we hung out together with, people that didn't like us or we didn't like them. We readjust ourselves.

Acting, Father, Lives, Mother, People, Readjust

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

Chickens, Grown, Know, Knows, Organically, Seen

I was a handsome boy, a very handsome young man, bright blue eyes, mmm. I would make trucks skid off the road. Anyway, girls were never a problem; the problem was me. But a lot of guys didn't like me because I made it look so easy, but it wasn't easy for me or anybody. When you're 24, it's not easy. You haven't reached anywhere that you want to be, so my looks helped me get in the movies, and I'm privileged that my parents came up with what I look like. What they did I'll never know and I don't care.

Anyway, Boys, Eye, Girl, Road, Trucks

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.

Alzheimer'S, Disease, Like, People

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.

Able, Career, Careers, Opportunity, Painter, Pursue

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