Peter O'Toole Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Peter O'Toole:
I know nothing at all about women. They are an amazing, beautiful mystery.
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There's always a hunger, when you're young, to go from peak to peak and avoid the valleys.
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Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and I'm having as an actor. I didn't expect the rest.
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I put steam on the table by being an actor. That is how I live. The longer I live, the more expensive it becomes. So I do my work. And I can't be immensely picky. How many beautiful scripts come in one's lifetime? I have had more than anybody, practically.
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I wouldn't mind being a lord.
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I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions.
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When I work with young people, I grab energy from them by the handsful.
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Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church.
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It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.
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Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.
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I'm not a French singer.
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There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.
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I love working with young people which to me is a big kick.
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All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70.
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I've stopped acting, but I don't think I've finished using my voice. I could, and probably will, record the whole of Shakespeare's sonnets. They live at the side of my bed and are my constant companions.
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I've done everything that's possible to be done.
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Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.
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No one can take Jesus away from me. There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.
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I had a pretty hilariously gloomy few years in the '70s.
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Actors have given up their clout. Now decision making is in the hands of lighting men, designers, bankers, special-effects people. We need to cut that out and just go with the most able trained actors in the business.
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I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star.
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Public crucifixion is no fun.
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My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfillment and material comfort. It has brought me together with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits.
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The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.
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Every three or four years, I'm hot again.
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Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working with Richard Burton in Beckett was another great joy.
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I'm not from the working class. I'm from the criminal class.
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People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.
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I love working with the young.
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We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure.
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My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.
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It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.
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When I'm doing theatre, I prefer to be doing cinema. When I'm doing cinema, I prefer to be doing theatre.
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A rubber neck is a necessary part of equipment.
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I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, 'He needs someone to bowl to him.'
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Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.
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I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.
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I've played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen.
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No one ever watched competitive swimming.
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If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word.
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The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead.
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I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian.
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It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back.
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For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding.
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Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.
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I have my very own Oscar now to be with me until death us do part.
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I can make the best French toast.
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My dad went at 86. A car killed him. He was crossing the road.
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My plumbing is no one's business but my own.
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I can now tell from the envelope whether or not it is a good script.
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Right after I left drama school, I had a job.
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No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That's what acting is.
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I've never looked for women. When I was a teenager, perhaps.
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Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.
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An Oscar is a symbol that is known in every corner of the world.
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We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.
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Money is always a pressure.
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I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.
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You know when you've found a part that you want to play. You know it because the part takes you over. It sits in the script waiting for you to play him.
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I never found it easy to learn my lines. It was slog, slog, slog.
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I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.
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The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.
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My own favorite is something called Rogue Male.
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I love London.
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I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum.
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I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday.
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If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it.
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A few years back I was asked if I would go and meet a director and his various acolytes, and it occurred to me halfway through the meeting that what I was doing was auditioning. And I thought, 'Well, hang on buddy. I've done half a century of this.'
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Always a bridesmaid never a bride my foot!
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It's a razor's edge, a romance with an old man and a young woman.
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I can't stand light. I hate weather.
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I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer.
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I have unqualified admiration for Brad Pitt.
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My favorite food from my homeland is Guinness. My second choice in Guinness. My third choice - would have to be Guinness.
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There is a legend. And to protest is daft.
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The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.
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I take whatever good part comes along.
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I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.
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I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you.
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If I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.
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I quite like being old.
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In my day England, Scotland, Wales had 80 drama schools. There are none left. So there's no training, no discipline.
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My father was a racetrack bookie.
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It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.
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I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.
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Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it.
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