Top 100 Quotes About Peter O'toole
#1. If I was to be an actor, I would love to be like peter o'toole.
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#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. And the reason parenting is becoming increasingly crucial is that we now live in a world that is more fucked up than Peter O'Toole on his birthday.
Dennis Miller
#6. If he (Peter O'Toole) had been any prettier it would have been Florence of Arabia.
Noel Coward
#7. And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role.
Anthony Quinn
#8. With Peter O'Toole, you just had nothing but fun.
Alex Rocco
#9. 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
#10. A victory? What have we won? We've won a rock in the middle of a wasteland, on the shores of a poisoned sea.
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#11. 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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#12. People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.
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#13. I've never looked for women. When I was a teenager, perhaps.
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#16. I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.
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#18. I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.
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#19. 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.
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#20. If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it.
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#21. 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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#25. 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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#26. Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it.
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#27. I can now tell from the envelope whether or not it is a good script.
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#28. When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.
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#29. Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.
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#30. It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.
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#31. A rubber neck is a necessary part of equipment.
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#32. My dad went at 86. A car killed him. He was crossing the road.
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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That's what acting is.
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#36. 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!
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#37. 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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#39. There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.
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#41. I did quite enjoy the days when one went for a beer at one's local in Paris and woke up in Corsica.
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#42. I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.
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#43. 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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#44. It's a razor's edge, a romance with an old man and a young woman.
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#45. 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.'
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#46. I know nothing at all about women. They are an amazing, beautiful mystery.
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#48. Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church.
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#49. 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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#51. George Eliot is my only steady girlfriend. We go to bed together every night.
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#52. I love working with young people which to me is a big kick.
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#53. I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian.
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#54. 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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#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once.
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#58. I've done everything that's possible to be done.
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#59. All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70.
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#60. There's always a hunger, when you're young, to go from peak to peak and avoid the valleys.
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#61. It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.
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#62. I never found it easy to learn my lines. It was slog, slog, slog.
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#63. 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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#65. I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you.
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#67. I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday.
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#68. 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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#69. 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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#70. I'm not from the working class. I'm from the criminal class.
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#71. If I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.
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#72. I've played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen.
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#73. I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes.
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#74. 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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#75. 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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#76. 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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#77. 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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#78. I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.
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#81. 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.
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#82. There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians.
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#83. The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.
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#84. I don't go for this auto-cannibalism. Very damaging.
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#85. I have my very own Oscar now to be with me until death us do part.
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#86. It was a mistake and I made the mistake because I was conservative and played safe. And that way lies failure." "Must do it ... constantly go to the well ... constantly try, try, try. Dare. Dare, Dare. Who dares wins
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#87. I have no intention of uttering my last words on the stage. Room service and a couple of depraved young women will do me quite nicely for an exit.
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#88. 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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#90. 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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#91. I'm a very physical actor. I use everything - toes, teeth, ears, everything. I don't simply mean physical in the sense of movement and vigour. I find myself remembering the shape of a scene by how I'm standing, what I'm doing.
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#92. For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding.
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#93. It was around 1985 before I heard the news of President Kennedy's assassination.
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#94. When my father would come home from the track after a good day, the whole room would light up; it was fairyland. But when he lost, it was black. In our house, it was always either a wake ... or a wedding.
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#96. Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.
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#98. 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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#99. The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.
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#100. My own favorite is something called Rogue Male.
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