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I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums. — Peter O'Toole

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We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition. — Peter O'Toole

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I don't go for this auto-cannibalism. Very damaging. — Peter O'Toole

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My dad went at 86. A car killed him. He was crossing the road. — Peter O'Toole

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I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions. — Peter O'Toole

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I know nothing at all about women. They are an amazing, beautiful mystery. — Peter O'Toole

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I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, 'He needs someone to bowl to him.' — Peter O'Toole

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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. — Peter O'Toole

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No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That's what acting is. — Peter O'Toole

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I wouldn't mind being a lord. — Peter O'Toole

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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

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If I was to be an actor, I would love to be like peter o'toole. — Peter O'Toole

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Acting has been described as farting about in disguise. — Peter O'Toole

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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

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Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead. — Peter O'Toole

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Public crucifixion is no fun. — Peter O'Toole

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A rubber neck is a necessary part of equipment. — Peter O'Toole

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The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead. — Peter O'Toole

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My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life. — Peter O'Toole

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A few years back I was asked if I would go and meet a director and his various acolytes, and it occurred to me halfway through the meeting that what I was doing was auditioning. And I thought, 'Well, hang on buddy. I've done half a century of this.' — Peter O'Toole

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I am human, all too bloody human. — Peter O'Toole

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I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian. — Peter O'Toole

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An Oscar is a symbol that is known in every corner of the world. — Peter O'Toole

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If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word. — Peter O'Toole

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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

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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

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I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday. — Peter O'Toole

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Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church. — Peter O'Toole

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I've done everything that's possible to be done. — Peter O'Toole

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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 — Peter O'Toole

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There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross. — Peter O'Toole

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I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you. — Peter O'Toole

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It was around 1985 before I heard the news of President Kennedy's assassination. — Peter O'Toole

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No one ever watched competitive swimming. — Peter O'Toole

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I'm not from the working class. I'm from the criminal class. — Peter O'Toole

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I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer. — Peter O'Toole

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The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do. — Peter O'Toole

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Marriage is forever. It's like cement. — Peter O'Toole

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My favorite food from my homeland is Guinness. My second choice in Guinness. My third choice - would have to be Guinness. — Peter O'Toole

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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

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The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket. — Peter O'Toole

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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

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George Eliot is my only steady girlfriend. We go to bed together every night. — Peter O'Toole

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I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV. — Peter O'Toole

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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

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I have unqualified admiration for Brad Pitt. — Peter O'Toole

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Do.As.Thou.Wilt. — Peter O'Toole

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I love working with the young. — Peter O'Toole

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People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun. — Peter O'Toole

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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

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I quite like being old. — Peter O'Toole

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I can now tell from the envelope whether or not it is a good script. — Peter O'Toole

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If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it. — Peter O'Toole

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I have my very own Oscar now to be with me until death us do part. — Peter O'Toole

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I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star. — Peter O'Toole

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It's a razor's edge, a romance with an old man and a young woman. — Peter O'Toole

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My father was a racetrack bookie. — Peter O'Toole

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I can't stand light. I hate weather. — Peter O'Toole

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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

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Every three or four years, I'm hot again. — Peter O'Toole

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I once knew a fellow who committed robbery with violence, and he was sentenced to a long prison stretch and 12 strokes of the cat. He'd been injured during the robbery, so they put him in hospital to make him better so that they could make him worse. During the administration of the cat, he fainted after six strokes, and the doctor put him in hospital again. And he got very friendly with the nurses and the doctors, and after a while they got him well enough to go back and take the next six strokes. I saw him afterward and I said: "Oh, Jesus - that bloody law, that bloody judge!" But he said: "I don't want the fellow who made the law, and I don't want the fellow who passed the sentence. All I want is the fellow who held the bloody whip. — Peter O'Toole

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I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone. — Peter O'Toole

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It distresses us to return work which is not perfect. — Peter O'Toole

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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

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When I work with young people, I grab energy from them by the handsful. — Peter O'Toole

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I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act. — Peter O'Toole

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I take whatever good part comes along. — Peter O'Toole

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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

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Many years ago I sent an old, beloved jacket to a cleaner, the Sycamore Cleaners. It was a leather jacket covered in Guinness and blood and marmalade, one of those jobs ... and it came back with a little note pinned to it, and on the note it said, 'It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.' So that will do for me. That can go on my tombstone. — Peter O'Toole

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I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary. — Peter O'Toole

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There's always a hunger, when you're young, to go from peak to peak and avoid the valleys. — Peter O'Toole

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My own favorite is something called Rogue Male. — Peter O'Toole

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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

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When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself. — Peter O'Toole

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I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theater - because at first glance I could see through him and he could see through me, and he knew that I knew that he knew. Look, love, I've been bullied all my life by bigger experts than Larry Olivier, I can assure you, and he's just got to get in line. — Peter O'Toole

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Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it. — Peter O'Toole

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I can make the best French toast. — Peter O'Toole

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For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding. — Peter O'Toole

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The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise. — Peter O'Toole

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There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians. — Peter O'Toole

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Money is always a pressure. — Peter O'Toole

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It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect. — Peter O'Toole

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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

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I can't stand light. I hate weather. My idea of heaven is moving from one smoke-filled room to another. — Peter O'Toole

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I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes. — Peter O'Toole

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All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70. — Peter O'Toole

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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

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I'm not a French singer. — Peter O'Toole

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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. — Peter O'Toole

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My plumbing is no one's business but my own. — Peter O'Toole

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Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months. — Peter O'Toole

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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

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My life is littered with copies of Moby Dick. — Peter O'Toole

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There is a legend. And to protest is daft. — Peter O'Toole

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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. — Peter O'Toole

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Right after I left drama school, I had a job. — Peter O'Toole

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I love working with young people which to me is a big kick. — Peter O'Toole

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I never found it easy to learn my lines. It was slog, slog, slog. — Peter O'Toole

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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

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I had a pretty hilariously gloomy few years in the '70s. — Peter O'Toole