Top 100 Quotes About Toole
#1. The old white man didn't look into your eyes, he looked clear through your eyes, and straight to the inside of the back of your head. 'Instead of runnin from pain, which is the natural thing in life, in boxing you step to it, get me?
F.X. Toole
#2. Michael O'Toole had no difficulty recognizing which questions in life should be answered by physics and which ones by religion.
Arthur C. Clarke
#3. 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
#4. Will you please stop screeching like a fishmonger and run along? Don't you have a bottle of muscatel baking in the oven?
John Kennedy Toole
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.
Peter O'Toole
#8. I've never looked for women. When I was a teenager, perhaps.
Peter O'Toole
#9. It's not something he can do anything about, being a bleeder, anymore than a guy with a glass jaw can do something about not having whiskers.
F.X. Toole
#12. Myrna was not astigmatic; the lenses were clear glass; she wore the glasses to prove her dedication and intensity of purpose.
John Kennedy Toole
#13. Oh, my God!" Ignatius bellowed from the front of the house. "What an egregious insult to good taste.
John Kennedy Toole
#14. I would very much like to know what the Founding Fathers would say if they could see these children being debauched to further the cause of Clearasil. However, I always suspected that democracy would come to this.
John Kennedy Toole
#15. I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.
Peter O'Toole
#16. I believe that a contract, or at least an understanding, exists between the American public and the American advertiser concerning what advertising is, what its limitations are and what price people will pay for it.
John O'Toole
#17. What is it, Gus? A problem? Are you having a problem? That's one of your problems. You never tell me your problems.
John Kennedy Toole
#18. If I was to be an actor, I would love to be like peter o'toole.
Peter O'Toole
#20. I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.
Peter O'Toole
#21. 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
#22. If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it.
Peter O'Toole
#23. 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
#25. I don't drive. Will you kindly go away? I am waiting for my mother.
John Kennedy Toole
#28. On the prow of the wagon, in an attempt to attract business among the Quarterites, Ignatius taped a sheet of Big Chief paper on which he had printed in crayon: TWELVE INCHES (12) OF PARADISE. So far no one had responded to its message.
John Kennedy Toole
#29. 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
#30. Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it.
Peter O'Toole
#31. Oh, Fortuna, blind, heedless goddess, I am strapped to your wheel,' Ignatius belched, 'Do not crush me beneath your spokes. Raise me on high, divinity.
John Kennedy Toole
#32. Remember I'm from Dauphine Street. We useta put the kitchen chairs out on the banquette and set there till midnight sometimes waiting for the house to cool off. And the things the people down here say! Lord.
John Kennedy Toole
#33. Mr. Gonzalez watched Mr. Zalatimo probing his long index finger high into one of his nostrils. What would this one do? His feet tingled with fear.
John Kennedy Toole
#34. I can now tell from the envelope whether or not it is a good script.
Peter O'Toole
#35. I want that Easter Ham. Where's my Thanksgiving Turkey? Miss Trixie snarled
John Kennedy Toole
#36. Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.
John Kennedy Toole
#38. You can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.
John Kennedy Toole
#39. He spun round under her grip. She smelled so good, her touch so soft as she unhooked the buttons on his tunic. Pushing the shirt apart she frowned, her hands running over the thin scars through his tattoos. 'And you belong to him, too.
Jessica O'Toole
#41. I should perhaps warn you that I am about to faint from anxiety and general depression, though. The film I saw last night was especially grueling, a teen-age beach musical. I almost collapsed during the singing sequence on surfboard.
John Kennedy Toole
#42. When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.
Peter O'Toole
#43. My son has a T-shirt that says, "Discipline doesn't cure Asperger's. But thanks for your concern.
Jennifer Cook O'Toole
#44. Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.
Peter O'Toole
#45. It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.
Peter O'Toole
#46. A rubber neck is a necessary part of equipment.
Peter O'Toole
#47. My dad went at 86. A car killed him. He was crossing the road.
Peter O'Toole
#48. She went up to his bedroom door and listened to the wildly twanging bed springs as they reached a crescendo as they built toward a finale worthy of Grieg's 'In the Hall of the Mountain King
John Kennedy Toole
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. ...the nation as a whole has no contact with reality. That is only one of the reasons why I have always been forced to exist on the fringes of its society, consigned to the Limbo reserved for those who do know reality when they see it.
John Kennedy Toole
#54. Watch yourself, bitch. You're nothing but a thief and gob shite scumbag with a face like an arse and a mind to go with it,
D.H. Toole
#55. Boxing is the magic of men in combat, the magic of will, and skill, and pain, and the risking of everything so you can respect yourself for the rest of your life.
F.X. Toole
#57. No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That's what acting is.
Peter O'Toole
#58. My favorite place to be is by the bay where the palm trees sway.
Janet Toole Lewis
#59. 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
#60. 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
#62. Too long have I confined myself in Miltonic isolation and meditation. It is clearly time for me to step boldly into our society, not in the boring, passive manner of the Myrna Minkoff school of social action, but with great style and zest.
John Kennedy Toole
#63. There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.
Peter O'Toole
#64. There is no way for the American economic system to function without advertising. There is no other way to communicate enough information about enough products to enough people with enough speed.
John O'Toole
#67. She appears to have been knocked a bit in her life already. Up rather than down. If she ever nears me, however, the direction will be reversed.
John Kennedy Toole
#68. I am a son of David and Jeanine O'Toole. I am a son of Earth. And you, you bug-eyed bastards, cannot have my mind.
Orson Scott Card
#69. Like two figures in the medieval Morality play, Pragmatism and Morality spar in the boxing ring of my brain.
John Kennedy Toole
#70. It's not your fate to be well treated," Ignatius cried. "You're an overt masochist. Nice treatment will confuse and destroy you.
John Kennedy Toole
#71. Filth!' Ignatious shouted, spewing wet popcorn over rows. 'How dare she pretend to be a virgin. Look at her degenerate face. Rape her!
John Kennedy Toole
#72. He has the vocal modulation of a railway-station announcer, the expressive power of a fence-post and the charisma of a week-old head of lettuce.
Fintan O'Toole
#73. Yes. She's correct. We're not friends. We are lufenes actually. But she's had an overdose of magic, which has seemingly rendered her empathetically impotent.
Jessica O'Toole
#74. 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
#75. I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.
Peter O'Toole
#76. 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
#78. It's a razor's edge, a romance with an old man and a young woman.
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. My mother is currently associating with some undesirables who are attempting to transform her into an athlete of sorts, deprave specimens of mankind who regularly bowl their way to oblivion.
John Kennedy Toole
#81. I know nothing at all about women. They are an amazing, beautiful mystery.
Peter O'Toole
#83. With the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.
John Kennedy Toole
#84. Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church.
Peter O'Toole
#85. 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
#87. 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
#88. George Eliot is my only steady girlfriend. We go to bed together every night.
Peter O'Toole
#89. I love working with young people which to me is a big kick.
Peter O'Toole
#91. My life is a rather grim one. One day I shall perhaps describe it to you in great detail.
John Kennedy Toole
#92. Health note: My stomach is getting out of bounds; the seams of my vendor's smock are creaking ominously.
John Kennedy Toole
#94. I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian.
Peter O'Toole
#95. I don't want this big stardom thing. I just want a good script.
Annette O'Toole
#96. 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
#97. My favorite food from my homeland is Guinness. My second choice in Guinness. My third choice - would have to be Guinness.
Peter O'Toole
#98. That fat freak a guarantee one hunner percen nucular bum. Shit. Drop him on somebody, everbody gettin caught in the fallout, gettin their ass blowed up.
John Kennedy Toole
#100. I thought that the vibrissae about my nostrils detected something unique while I was outside.
John Kennedy Toole
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