Peter O'Toole Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Peter O'Toole
I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums. — Peter O'Toole
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
I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions. — Peter O'Toole
I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, 'He needs someone to bowl to him.' — Peter O'Toole
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
No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That's what acting is. — Peter O'Toole
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
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
I am human, all too bloody human. — Peter O'Toole
I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian. — Peter O'Toole
An Oscar is a symbol that is known in every corner of the world. — Peter O'Toole
If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word. — Peter O'Toole
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
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
I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday. — Peter O'Toole
Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church. — Peter O'Toole
I've done everything that's possible to be done. — Peter O'Toole
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
There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross. — Peter O'Toole
I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you. — Peter O'Toole
It was around 1985 before I heard the news of President Kennedy's assassination. — Peter O'Toole
No one ever watched competitive swimming. — Peter O'Toole
I'm not from the working class. I'm from the criminal class. — Peter O'Toole
I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer. — Peter O'Toole
The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do. — Peter O'Toole
Marriage is forever. It's like cement. — Peter O'Toole
My favorite food from my homeland is Guinness. My second choice in Guinness. My third choice - would have to be Guinness. — Peter O'Toole
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
The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket. — Peter O'Toole
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
George Eliot is my only steady girlfriend. We go to bed together every night. — Peter O'Toole
I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV. — Peter O'Toole
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
I have unqualified admiration for Brad Pitt. — Peter O'Toole
Do.As.Thou.Wilt. — Peter O'Toole
I love working with the young. — Peter O'Toole
People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun. — Peter O'Toole
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
I quite like being old. — Peter O'Toole
I can now tell from the envelope whether or not it is a good script. — Peter O'Toole
If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it. — Peter O'Toole
I have my very own Oscar now to be with me until death us do part. — Peter O'Toole
I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star. — Peter O'Toole
It's a razor's edge, a romance with an old man and a young woman. — Peter O'Toole
My father was a racetrack bookie. — Peter O'Toole
I can't stand light. I hate weather. — Peter O'Toole
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
Every three or four years, I'm hot again. — Peter O'Toole
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
I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone. — Peter O'Toole
It distresses us to return work which is not perfect. — Peter O'Toole
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
When I work with young people, I grab energy from them by the handsful. — Peter O'Toole
I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act. — Peter O'Toole
I take whatever good part comes along. — Peter O'Toole
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
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
I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary. — Peter O'Toole
There's always a hunger, when you're young, to go from peak to peak and avoid the valleys. — Peter O'Toole
My own favorite is something called Rogue Male. — Peter O'Toole
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
When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself. — Peter O'Toole
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
Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it. — Peter O'Toole
I can make the best French toast. — Peter O'Toole
For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding. — Peter O'Toole
The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise. — Peter O'Toole
There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians. — Peter O'Toole
Money is always a pressure. — Peter O'Toole
It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect. — Peter O'Toole
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
I can't stand light. I hate weather. My idea of heaven is moving from one smoke-filled room to another. — Peter O'Toole
I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes. — Peter O'Toole
All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70. — Peter O'Toole
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
I'm not a French singer. — Peter O'Toole
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
My plumbing is no one's business but my own. — Peter O'Toole
Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months. — Peter O'Toole
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
My life is littered with copies of Moby Dick. — Peter O'Toole
There is a legend. And to protest is daft. — Peter O'Toole
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
Right after I left drama school, I had a job. — Peter O'Toole
I love working with young people which to me is a big kick. — Peter O'Toole
I never found it easy to learn my lines. It was slog, slog, slog. — Peter O'Toole
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
I had a pretty hilariously gloomy few years in the '70s. — Peter O'Toole