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

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

We were scared. I guess when you’re in your twenties, that’s how it is. You’ve got an adult body, but you’re trying to make it work with a kid’s emotions. With Marilyn and me, it was worse. Our kid emotions didn’t even work. We’d been treated too poorly.

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

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

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 enjoy being recognized whatever environment I’m in.

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.

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.