Tony Curtis Quotes

I came from Brooklyn. My nickname was Moochie.

I was born in Faridabad and I spent a major part of my growing up years in Delhi before shifting to Mumbai. Delhi-NCR is still very special to me.

I spent my entire childhood in the same town, in Kent. I went to grade school there. There was a boarding school that my mother taught at, called - appropriately enough - Kent School, that I went to. Yeah, pretty much my entire childhood was spent in that town.

I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.

I loved growing up in Shaker Heights, and I really miss it.

I was born in Battle Creek, Michigan, about 20 miles from Kalamazoo. I lived around there for about seven years. That community is one that I really care about.

You can take the boy out of Philly but not the Philly out of the boy. It shapes my world view. It was a great place to grow up.

Growing up in Highbridge was real. Me and all my friends, we never really went to any other places in the Bronx but Highbridge. We always just stayed in Highbridge. It was like territory, to be honest, because Highbridge is like a town.

Once my family grew bigger I loved Portland more.

My first memories of life were Californian.

My father was a motor mechanic, and my mother a homemaker. We moved to Bath when I was four, and so I consider myself a Bathonian.

I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C.

I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.

My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.

I loved growing up in Tulsa.

New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story.

I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.

I was born in Nagpur and brought up in Ahmedabad, where my father had a small factory.

I did grow up in Kenosha, Wisconsin, around a lot of my mom's family. I had a lot of cousins and aunts and uncles around me, and my sisters and my brother. Probably the most formative part of it was that we grew up on the edge of a forest. It wasn't a big forest, but it was enough. When you're a kid, it feels gigantic.

Over the years, I've lived in a variety of places, including America, but I was born and raised in the Lake District, in Cumbria. Growing up in that rural, sodden, mountainous county has shaped my brain, perhaps even my temperament.

I grew up on Avenue C, and Tompkins Square Park was my park. That was where I played ball every day. I lived in that park.

When I was a kid, we didn't really leave Cambridge, which was the town where I grew up in.

I grew up in a neighborhood that had a lot of things to offer, good and bad.

My formative years were in Jersey and I'm kind of Jersey at heart.