R I P Peter O Toole Quotes

#1. Question: How do you know you're God? Answer: Simple. When I pray to him, I find I'm talking to myself.

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#2. 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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#3. People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.

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#4. I've never looked for women. When I was a teenager, perhaps.

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#5. I wouldn't mind being a lord.

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#6. Do.As.Thou.Wilt.

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#7. I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.

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#8. If I was to be an actor, I would love to be like peter o'toole.

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#9. Always a bridesmaid never a bride my foot!

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#10. I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.

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#11. 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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#12. If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it.

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#13. 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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#14. My plumbing is no one's business but my own.

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#15. My father was a racetrack bookie.

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#16. What I like is bottomless flattery.

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#17. 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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#18. Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it.

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#19. I can now tell from the envelope whether or not it is a good script.

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#20. When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.

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#21. Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.

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#22. It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.

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#23. A rubber neck is a necessary part of equipment.

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#24. My dad went at 86. A car killed him. He was crossing the road.

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#25. 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.

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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That's what acting is.

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#29. 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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#30. 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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#31. Public crucifixion is no fun.

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#32. Money is always a pressure.

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