R I P Peter O Toole Quotes

#1. 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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#2. Money is always a pressure.

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#3. Public crucifixion is no fun.

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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That's what acting is.

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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. My dad went at 86. A car killed him. He was crossing the road.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#17. 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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#18. What I like is bottomless flattery.

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#19. My father was a racetrack bookie.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#28. Do.As.Thou.Wilt.

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

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

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

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#32. 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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