The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.
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At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.Tony Curtis
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.
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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.
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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.
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Coach Parcells keeps telling me to look at the big picture and not what's going on now. He's trying to build me to be the player he wants me to be.
Tony Curtis
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.
Tony Curtis
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