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But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.
Yes I'm still working, but my life's no longer filled with it.
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.
One of my favorites is Coming Home and its hung in the enlisted men's naval base art Pearl Harbor. It's a seascape and part of my younger life while I was growing up in the Navy.
And I'm an author.
I also know that a lot of young people attend the Jules Verne Festival and I am grateful because they keep me young!
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've just opened a show in Florida, although I also have many pieces on display around the world.
The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know.
Years ago when I first started making movies, the studio would send me out on tour.
I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.
I always painted.
Before I was in the Navy I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I was able to study drama and get into the movies.
I don't know what organically grown chickens are; I've never seen one.
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.
Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.
I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.
I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.
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.
The Navy opened doors for me that would not have been possible any other way, and for that I am forever grateful.
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 made 122 movies, and I daresay there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day.
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.
The service meant so much to me. You don't know privileged I feel and how lucky I am to have served.
So all of these pictures, when I see them now, I see another level that I didn't notice when I made them. That makes them very appealing to me.
The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.
I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring.
Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
I enjoy being recognized whatever environment I'm in.
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.
Jilly and I have a very active life together. We go Salsa with a bit of disco mixed in.
I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.
But my longevity is due to my good timing.
While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.
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 only have good memories of being in France!
Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.
One time, a magazine - Modern Screen or maybe Photoplay, I can't remember which - had a contest to win me for a day. So this sweet family won me, in Walla Walla, Washington, I think.
I like Vegas for its spontaneity.
Every movie I've been in has ended up on television.
I look at everything in an artistic way.
Well, one is to get rid of any negative attitudes and vibrations that get to me.
My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.
Everywhere I go in the world, people know me and recognise me and really show affection for me.
I've never hung any of my paintings there, although I like them on the floor - it's so artistic.
I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.
If you know how to live in Vegas you can have the best time.
It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.
It was a pleasure to work with Richard Fleischer. He is a very thoughtful, considerate and probing man.
For instance, I always have one hanging in Budapest in the mayors office.
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