Tony Curtis
1925-2010|
Biography
Born in The Bronx, New York, USA 
Tony Curtis Quotes
“It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.”“Kissing Marilyn [Monroe] was like kissing Hitler - sure, I said that. It wasn’t that bad. But you can see through that line: there was this woman, beautifully endowed, treating all men like shit. Why did I have to take that?” “One critic wrote: I’ve now found someone to replace Tony Curtis as the world’s worst actor - Elvis Presley.” “When I first got to Hollywood, I made 40 dollars a week and they named a hairstyle after me and made me into a kind of male Yvonne De Carlo, fooling around in Arabian Nights rubbish.” “An actress I knew - when I filmed with her, I was 31 and she was 36. Today I’m 40 and she’s still only 37.” “At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.” “But my longevity is due to my good timing.” “It’s not age as much as the experiences I have had.” “The movie business is very twisted.” “Everywhere I go in the world, people know me and recognise me and really show affection for me.” “I enjoy being recognized whatever environment I’m in.” “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’ve made 122 movies, and I daresay there’s a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day.” “Comedy is the most honest way for an actor to earn his living. People would rather laugh than cry. The quickest way to change drama into comedy is simply to speed up the film.” “I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I’m so depressed, or life is terrible.” “Every movie I’ve been in has ended up on television.” “I’ve been in the movies for 50 years, I’ve made 130 some-odd movies.” “When young people don’t want to kiss their girl in the living room because their parents are looking, the best place to go is a movie theatre. So the movie’s not important. We think we’re such great film-makers, when in reality our audience just wants to be alone.” “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.” “We’ve no control over our conception, only over our creation.” “You wanna know the secret of life? The saliva of young girls.” “I wouldn’t be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.” “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.” “But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.” “Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.” “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.” “Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.” “I look at everything in an artistic way.” “Yes I’m still working, but my life’s no longer filled with it.” “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.” “For instance, I always have one hanging in Budapest in the mayor’s office.” “I can’t sit around and wait for the telephone to ring.” “I don’t know what organically grown chickens are; I’ve never seen one.” “I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.” “I like Vegas for its spontaneity.” “I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.” “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’ve just opened a show in Florida, although I also have many pieces on display around the world.” “If you know how to live in Vegas you can have the best time.” “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.” “My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.” “The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.” “The service meant so much to me. You don’t know privileged I feel and how lucky I am to have served.” “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.” “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.” “While you’re doing it, you don’t really know what you’re doing.” |
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The Actor
Tony Curtis has appeared in the following films:How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border (1949) City Across the River (1949) The Lady Gambles (1949) Criss Cross (1949) Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949) Woman in Hiding (1950) Francis (1950) I Was a Shoplifter (1950) Sierra (1950) Winchester ’73 (1950) Kansas Raiders (1950) The Prince Who Was a Thief (1951) Flesh and Fury (1952) No Room for the Groom (1952) Son of Ali Baba (1952) Houdini (1953) The All American (1953) Forbidden (1953) Beachhead (1954) Johnny Dark (1954) The Black Shield of Falworth (1954) Six Bridges to Cross (1955) So This Is Paris (1955) The Purple Mask (1955) The Rawhide Years (1955) The Square Jungle (1955) Trapeze (1956) Mister Cory (1957) Sweet Smell of Success (1957) The Midnight Story (1957) The Vikings (1958) Kings Go Forth (1958) The Defiant Ones (1958) The Perfect Furlough (1958) Some Like It Hot (1959) Operation Petticoat (1959) Who Was That Lady? (1960) The Rat Race (1960) Spartacus (1960) The Great Impostor (1961) The Outsider (1961) Taras Bulba (1962) 40 Pounds of Trouble (1962) The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) Captain Newman, M.D. (1963) Paris – When It Sizzles (1964) Wild and Wonderful (1964) Goodbye Charlie (1964) Sex and the Single Girl (1964) The Great Race (1965) Boeing (707) Boeing (707) (1965) Chamber of Horrors (1966) Not with My Wife, You Don’t! (1966) Drop Dead Darling (1966) Don’t Make Waves (1967) La Cintura di castità (1968) Rosemary’s Baby (1968) The Boston Strangler (1968) Monte Carlo or Bust (1969) You Can’t Win ’Em All (1970) Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? (1970) Mission: Monte Carlo (1974) Lepke (1975) The Last Tycoon (1976) Casanova & Co. (1977) Sextette (1978) The Manitou (1978) The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978) Double Take (1979) Title Shot (1979) Little Miss Marker (1980) It Rained All Night the Day I Left (1980) The Mirror Crack’d (1980) Othello, el comando negro (1982) Where Is Parsifal? (1983) BrainWaves (1983) Insignificance (1985) Balboa (1986) Club Life (1986) Banter (1986) Der Passagier – Welcome to Germany (1988) Lobster Man from Mars (1989) Midnight (1989) Walter & Carlo i Amerika (1989) Prime Target (1991) Center of the Web (1992) The Mummy Lives (1993) Naked in New York (1993) The Immortals (1995) Brittle Glory (1997) Hardball (1997) Alien X Factor (1997) Stargames (1998) Louis & Frank (1998) Play It to the Bone (1999) Reflections of Evil (2002) The Blacksmith and the Carpenter (2007) David & Fatima (2008) |
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