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

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

"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."

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

"I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific."

"The government gave me enough money to go to acting school."

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

"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."

"But my longevity is due to my good timing."

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

"It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move."

"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."

"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."

"I enjoy being recognized whatever environment I'm in."

"I've just opened a show in Florida, although I also have many pieces on display around the world."

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

"For instance, I always have one hanging in Budapest in the mayors office."

"I've made 122 movies, and I daresay there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day."

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

"I like Vegas for its spontaneity."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"Its not age as much as the experiences I have had."

"My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx."

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