We often don't think of them, ...

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.
 Tony Curtis

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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.
 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
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.
 Tony Curtis
Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
 Tony Curtis
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.
 Tony Curtis