Tony Curtis

“I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“Everywhere I go in the world, people know me and recognise me and really show affection for me.”

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

“The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.”

“If you know how to live in Vegas you can have the best time.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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