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

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

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.

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 look at everything in an artistic way.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 like Vegas for its spontaneity.

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

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

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.

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

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

I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I enjoy being recognized whatever environment I'm in.

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.

But my longevity is due to my good timing.

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

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.

The Germans certainly - the intelligence service believed that there were WMD. It turns out that we were all wrong, probably in my judgment, and that is most disturbing.

My whole life was service to people and the Fatherland.

In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.

It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

As a personal beneficiary of the service that Amtrak provides and as someone who represents a congressional district that counts on safe, reliable rail service, I am a strong supporter of providing this vital industry the funding necessary to continue operations.

The Council of Islamic Affairs is doing a great service to the world by promoting a greater understanding in America of the rich heritage of the Islamic peoples and their hopes and aspirations for the future.

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.