Tony Curtis movie quotes

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

“It's not how long you wait, it's who you're waiting for.”
Tony Curtis - Junior

“Like kissing Hitler.”
Tony Curtis On Marilyn Monroe

“- Antoninus: Are you afraid to die, Spartacus?
- Spartacus: No more than I was to be born.”
Tony Curtis - Antoninus
Kirk Douglas - Spartacus

“I am tasting my favorite new perfume - success!”
Tony Curtis - Sidney Falco

“Don't do anything I wouldn't do! That gives you a lot of leeway...”
Tony Curtis - Sidney Falco

“- Sidney Falco: If I'm gonna go out on a limb for you, you gotta know what's involved!
- J.J. Hunsecker: My right hand hasn't seen my left hand in thirty years.”
Tony Curtis - Sidney Falco
Burt Lancaster - J.J. Hunsecker

“Maybe I left my sense of humor in my other suit.”
Tony Curtis - Sidney Falco

“- Sugar Kane Kowalczyk: Isn't water polo terribly dangerous?
- Junior: I'll say. I had two ponies drowned under me.”
Marilyn Monroe - Sugar Kane Kowalczyk
Tony Curtis - Junior

“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

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

“I've made 122 movies, and I dare say there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day.”
Tony Curtis

“If you know how to live in Vegas you can have the best time.”
Tony Curtis

“I guess I've still got some of that old live-it-up left in me. I'm buying a Rolls Royce convertible. Going the whole route, you might say.”
Tony Curtis

“- Sugar Kane Kowalczyk: I met one of them.
- Joe: One of whom?
- Sugar Kane Kowalczyk: Shell Oil Junior. He's got millions, he's got glasses, he's got a yacht!
- Joe: You don't say.
- Jerry: He's not only got a yacht, he's got a bicycle!”
Marilyn Monroe - Sugar Kane Kowalczyk
Tony Curtis - Joe
Jack Lemmon - Jerry

“I think Marilyn was as mad as a hatter. ”
Tony Curtis On Marilyn Monroe

“- Joe: What are you worried about? This job is going to last a long time.
- Jerry: Well, suppose it doesn't?
- Joe: Jerry, boy, why do you have to paint everything so black? Suppose you got hit by a truck. Suppose the stock market crashes. Suppose Mary Pickford divorces Douglas Fairbanks. Suppose the Dodgers leave Brooklyn!”
Tony Curtis - Joe
Jack Lemmon - Jerry

“- Joe: You're not a girl! You're a guy! And why would a guy wanna marry a guy?
- Jerry: For security!”
Tony Curtis - Joe
Jack Lemmon - Jerry

“- Sugar Kane Kowalczyk: I come from this musical family. My mother is a piano teacher and my father was a conductor.
- Joe: Where did he conduct?
- Sugar Kane Kowalczyk: On the Baltimore & Ohio.”
Marilyn Monroe - Sugar Kane Kowalczyk
Tony Curtis - Joe

“- Junior: Syncopators. Does that mean you play that very fast music... jazz?
- Sugar Kane Kowalczyk: Yeah, real hot.
- Junior: I guess some like it hot. I personally prefer classical music.”
Tony Curtis - Junior
Marilyn Monroe - Sugar Kane Kowalczyk

“- Sweet Sue: Didn't you girls say you went to a conservatory?
- Daphne: Yes. For a whole year.
- Sweet Sue: I thought you said three years.
- Josephine: We got time off, for good behavior.”
Joan Shawlee - Sweet Sue
Jack Lemmon - Daphne
Tony Curtis - Josephine

“- Junior: Look, if all you're interested in is whether I am married or not...
- Sugar Kane Kowalczyk: Oh, I'm not interested at all.
- Junior: Well, I'm not.
- Sugar Kane Kowalczyk: That's very interesting!”
Tony Curtis - Junior
Marilyn Monroe - Sugar Kane Kowalczyk