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

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.

Every line, everything you do in life, should have a motive and a reason. Every one of us should have a motive and a reason, most of the time, to accomplish all the things that we want in life.

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

That so many people respond to me is fabulous. It is like having a kind of Alzheimer's disease, where everyone knows you and you don't know anyone.

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.