Sir Michael Caine says Tony Curtis ordered him to quit smoking
October 1st, 2010 - 5:42 pm ICT by ANILondon, Oct 1 (ANI): Sir Michael Caine says he’d never forget his first meeting with the late Tony Curtis.
The 85-year-old acting legend died on Wednesday after suffering a cardiac arrest at his home in Nevada.
Caine was among the first to pay tribute and he shared his special memories of the ‘Some Like It Hot star’, including their first meeting when he was prompted to stop smoking after Curtis destroyed his personal tobacco stash.
“I just learned myself (about Curtis’ death) and it was a terrible shock and instantly I remembered the first time I’d met him. I was at a party, it was in winter and there was a fire and I was chain-smoking at the time, smoking a lot of cigarettes,” the Daily Star quoted him as telling Sky News.
I was stood there talking to someone and suddenly I felt a hand in my inside pocket and they took out my cigarettes and chucked them in the fire. I looked up and it was Tony Curtis. I’d never met him and he was very famous. I said, ‘What did you do that for?’ And he said, ‘You’re going to die Michael if you keep doing that.’ I didn’t give them up then but I did give them up eventually,” he added, unfolding pages from the past. (ANI)
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