Top 100 Peter O'sullivan Quotes
#1. And as she was crossing to the day-nursery he added thoughtlessly, 'And shut that window. I feel a draught.'
'O George, never ask me to do that. The window must always be left open for them, always, always.
J.M. Barrie
#2. 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.
Peter O'Toole
#3. I never found it easy to learn my lines. It was slog, slog, slog.
Peter O'Toole
#4. It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.
Peter O'Toole
#5. There's always a hunger, when you're young, to go from peak to peak and avoid the valleys.
Peter O'Toole
#6. All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70.
Peter O'Toole
#7. Yours most sincerely,
Peter Van Houten
c/o Lidewij Vliegnthart
"WHAT?!" I shouted aloud. "WHAT IS THIS LIFE?
John Green
#8. I hated Peter O'Toole. I wanted to kill that guy! When they said he was dead, I was happy. People said, 'Poor Peter O'Toole.' I was happy!
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#9. I've done everything that's possible to be done.
Peter O'Toole
#10. He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once.
Peter O'Toole
#11. It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.
Peter O'Toole
#12. I think all recent music sucks, and that includes Type O Negative.
Peter Steele
#13. My favorite food from my homeland is Guinness. My second choice in Guinness. My third choice - would have to be Guinness.
Peter O'Toole
#15. 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.
Peter O'Toole
#16. Peter
Swirling dreams
Dragons knew
Touching life to win
Deep inside many other worlds
Where should we begin?
William O'Brien
#17. I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian.
Peter O'Toole
#18. O meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an expense. Live as I do, undeceived.
Peter S. Beagle
#19. I love working with young people which to me is a big kick.
Peter O'Toole
#20. George Eliot is my only steady girlfriend. We go to bed together every night.
Peter O'Toole
#21. I never met Peter O'Toole, but he one was of those rare actors whose success was defined by a single role. His incandescent performance in David Lean's 'Lawrence of Arabia' is one that nobody who saw it will ever forget.
Michael Korda
#23. 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.
Peter O'Toole
#24. Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church.
Peter O'Toole
#25. I adapted an O. Henry short story called 'By Courier,' which got nominated for a Best Short Subject Oscar.
Peter Riegert
#26. I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes.
Peter O'Toole
#27. The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.
Peter O'Toole
#28. There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians.
Peter O'Toole
#29. I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.
Peter O'Toole
#32. I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.
Peter O'Toole
#33. 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.
Peter O'Toole
#34. I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.
Peter O'Toole
#35. The belief that young people are incapable of making reasonable decisions is a cornerstone of our system of compulsory, closely monitored education.
Peter O. Gray
#36. The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.
Peter O'Toole
#38. In my day England, Scotland, Wales had 80 drama schools. There are none left. So there's no training, no discipline.
Peter O'Toole
#40. I've played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen.
Peter O'Toole
#41. If I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.
Peter O'Toole
#42. I'm not from the working class. I'm from the criminal class.
Peter O'Toole
#43. 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.
Peter O'Toole
#44. I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, 'He needs someone to bowl to him.'
Peter O'Toole
#45. I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday.
Peter O'Toole
#46. As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.
Tatum O'Neal
#48. Take it easy, Teague,'said another. But Peter would not take it easy: he hesitated, trying to quell the wild indignation; but he failed; it possessed him, and with a furious shriek he hurled himself upon his country's oppressors.
Patrick O'Brian
#49. I can't come,' she said apologetically, 'I have forgotten how to fly.'
'I'll soon teach you again.'
'O Peter, don't waste the fairy dust on me.
J.M. Barrie
#50. I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you.
Peter O'Toole
#51. Everyone praises Sachin Tendulkar. He may be a genius in his own right but in my book, Rahul Dravid is the artist. Dravid's defence tactics, his strokes, his cuts, his grace are truly amazing. I'd like to meet the chap sometime and take my hat off to him.
Peter O'Toole
#52. On the whole I try to keep Modesty and Willie in timeless settings, which is why I avoid all the latest slang and in-words. It won't be long before 'brill' sounds as dated as 'super' does now. [Uncle Happy, 1990]
Peter O'Donnell
#53. I can now tell from the envelope whether or not it is a good script.
Peter O'Toole
#54. I don't ever want to grow up. I guess I'm like Peter Pan. Grown-ups have problems. I want to stay happy.
Shaquille O'Neal
#55. Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it.
Peter O'Toole
#56. 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.
Peter O'Toole
#57. In the name of Jesus Christ, who was never in a hurry, we pray, O God, that You will slow us down, for we know that we live too fast. With all of eternity before us, make us take time to live
time to get acquainted with You, time to enjoy Your blessings, and time to know each other.
Peter Marshall
#62. 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.
Peter O'Toole
#63. If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it.
Peter O'Toole
#64. When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.
Peter O'Toole
#65. I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.
Peter O'Toole
#67. If I was to be an actor, I would love to be like peter o'toole.
Peter O'Toole
#68. I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.
Peter O'Toole
#69. O my God, how happy should I be to hear from Thy lips those words which Thou didst once address to Saint Thomas of Aquin: Thou hast spoken well of Me, Pierre!
Peter Julian Eymard
#72. I've never looked for women. When I was a teenager, perhaps.
Peter O'Toole
#73. People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.
Peter O'Toole
#74. 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.
Peter O'Toole
#75. A victory? What have we won? We've won a rock in the middle of a wasteland, on the shores of a poisoned sea.
Peter O'Toole
#76. Every person my size has a different life, a different history. Different ways of dealing with it. Just because I'm seemingly O.K. with it, I can't preach how to be O.K. with it. I don't think I still am O.K. with it. There's days when I'm not.
Peter Dinklage
#77. Can you imagine someone handing Peter a microphone on Sunday morning and whispering, "Okay, now, you've got twenty minutes. We have to get the people out of here promptly because the chariot races start at one o'clock"?
Jim Cymbala
#78. I know nothing at all about women. They are an amazing, beautiful mystery.
Peter O'Toole
#79. One time in the late '50s, when Peter Finch, Laurence Harvey, and I were all offered the same movie role - the assumption being that we weren't friends - we marched up to producer Dino De Laurentiis's door and declared in unison, 'We don't think we're suitable for the part.'
Peter O'Toole
#80. It's a razor's edge, a romance with an old man and a young woman.
Peter O'Toole
#81. Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.
Peter Stuyvesant
#82. 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.
Peter O'Toole
#83. I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.
Peter O'Toole
#84. I did quite enjoy the days when one went for a beer at one's local in Paris and woke up in Corsica.
Peter O'Toole
#86. The long arm of the law ends in the pimp hand of justice.
Peter O'Brien
#87. TALK TO ALL THOSE YOU MEET. BEFRIEND THE FRIENDLESS. SPEAK KINDLY.
Peter O'Malley
#88. There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.
Peter O'Toole
#89. Question: How do you know you're God? Answer: Simple. When I pray to him, I find I'm talking to myself.
Peter O'Toole
#91. It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.
Peter O'Toole
#92. Do you not know that King Kong the first was just three foot six inches tall? He only came up to Faye Wray's belly button! If God could do the tricks that we can do he'd be a happy man!
Peter O'Toole
#93. No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That's what acting is.
Peter O'Toole
#94. 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.
Peter O'Toole
#95. 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.
Peter O'Toole
#96. I saw Waiting for Godot when I was 17 in rep with a then unknown actor called Peter O'Toole playing Vladimir. I remember leaving the theatre promising myself that one day I would have a go at this play and then pretty much forgot it for 50 years.
Patrick Stewart
#97. My dad went at 86. A car killed him. He was crossing the road.
Peter O'Toole
#98. A rubber neck is a necessary part of equipment.
Peter O'Toole
#99. It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.
Peter O'Toole
#100. Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.
Peter O'Toole
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