O'toole Quotes & Sayings

I wish this world had none of it. That we were all bound only by the matter around us and the dreams in our hearts. But it does, and we are all slave to it, unless we give the challenge. What is the point of possessing the power you have if not to use it for the greatest good you hold so dear? And why do you think that goodness exists in doing nothing, rather than trying something you're uncertain of? — Jessica 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

And the reason parenting is becoming increasingly crucial is that we now live in a world that is more fucked up than Peter O'Toole on his birthday. — Dennis Miller

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

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

Honeybees are social insects and live in colonies. Each colony is a family unit, comprising a single, egg-laying female or queen and her many sterile daughters called workers. The workers cooperate in the food-gathering, nest-building and rearing the offspring. Males are reared only at the times of the year when their presence is required. — Christopher O'Toole

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

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

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

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

Greatness, Master, is generally only considered enough if you are the greatest. — Jessica O'Toole

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

I've played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen. — Peter O'Toole

Public crucifixion is no fun. — Peter O'Toole

Stengel admitted. "I'm not going to make any decision until I have to give the umpire my batting order. Then you'll know as well as I." The next afternoon, Casey resisted — Andrew O'Toole

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

Booze is the most outrageous of drugs which is why I chose it. — Peter O'Toole

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

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

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

Out of crisis comes clarity — Randolph O'Toole

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

I never found it easy to learn my lines. It was slog, slog, slog. — 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

I hated Peter O'Toole. I wanted to kill that guy! When they said he was dead, I was happy. People said, 'Poor Peter O'Toole.' I was happy! — Alejandro Jodorowsky

In my day England, Scotland, Wales had 80 drama schools. There are none left. So there's no training, no discipline. — Peter O'Toole

If I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself. — Peter O'Toole

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

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

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

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

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

Science faculties at renowned research institutions were given two identical CVs to assess. Half the scientists received a CV with a female name, and half with a male name. The 'female' applicant was consistently rated as less competent and less hireable, and the scientists were less likely to want to mentor her. The 'male' candidate was offered a significantly higher starting salary — Emer O'Toole

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

Do only the greatest good, for the greatest number of people. They will do the rest. — Jessica O'Toole

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

Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act. — 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

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

If you do not surrender, I shall be forced to shoot you through the head with a rather large bullet. — Peter O'Toole

If he (Peter O'Toole) had been any prettier it would have been Florence of Arabia. — Noel Coward

I quite like being old. — Peter O'Toole

He gave me a hard smile before clapping on his helmet. It enclosed his entire head and featured a multifunction power-optic visor, holovid camera with continuous map-revise data stream, laser communication capability, and an omnifilter respirator. Like his soft-armored combat jumpsuit, it had an environmental system to keep him comfy. His belt held a Kagi sidearm, a monster commando knife in place of the usual Ivanov stunner, small flexcanteens of water, coffee and nutrigoo, and a bulb of trailblazer spray. — Julian May

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

No one ever watched competitive swimming. — 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

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

Even within our culture, there are times when breasts stop being read as bouncy sex balls: when women are breastfeeding, there's pretty wide acceptance of the fact that shouting 'phwoar' is bad form. — Emer O'Toole

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

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

So the first time I ever came into contact with O'Toole was at one of these very gatherings. I remember it well because I'd just punched Harold Pinter down a flight of stairs. Oh yes, I'm afraid so. No long dramatic pauses this time, Harold; he got one right on the side of the jaw. Wham! — Brian Blessed

Always a bridesmaid never a bride my foot! — Peter O'Toole

Political commercials encourage the deceptive, the destructive and the degrading. — John 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

When executing advertising, it's best to think of yourself as an uninvited guest in the living room of a prospect who has the magical power to make you disappear instantly. — John O'Toole

I've never looked for women. When I was a teenager, perhaps. — Peter O'Toole

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

And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role. — Anthony Quinn

What I like is bottomless flattery. — Peter O'Toole

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

It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back. — Peter O'Toole

Let it be understood that we cannot go outside of this alternative: liberty, inequality, survival of the fittest; not liberty, equality, survival of the unfittest. The former carries society forward and favors all its best members; the latter carries society downwards and favors its worst members. — James O'Toole

That had been her plan, he decided. The devious witch. She'd planted the seed in his brain, stirred up his loins, as he was only a man, after all, and now she could torment him just by being in the same vicinity.
Well, two could play this game.
Rather than waiting for Darcy to pick up the orders, he carried them out himself. Just to show Brenna O'Toole that she didn't trouble him in the least.
The perverse creature didn't even glance his way as he swung into the pub and wound his way through the crowd to the tables. — Nora Roberts

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

I have no intention of uttering my last words on the stage. Room service and a couple of depraved young women will do me quite nicely for an exit. — Peter O'Toole

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

I thought it was just a longing for you, and that would be enough for both of us. I do long for you, but it's not enough and it's not all. Oh, this is where I want t be. — Nora Roberts

it is important to stress that history is always constructed, not absolute or unchallangeable. Histories are stories about the past, and reconstructing the past ill involve elements of mythologising from the cultural, political and theoretical stances of both the historian and the informants. — John O'Toole

It was a lie, of course, and she was prepared to confess it to her priest. But she'd be damned if she'd tell him she'd been playing with his music.
Her pride was worth the penance.
He felt a quiver in his heart that he took for sympathy. "There, Brenna darling. Have you gone and fallen in love on me?"
She jerked, whirled, gaped at him. He was watching her with such - such bloody affection, such patience and sympathy. She could have beaten him black and blue. Instead, she just shoved clear of him and snatched up her toolbox. "Shawn Gallagher, you are truly a great idiot of a man."
With her nose in the air and her tools clanking, she stalked out.
He only shook his head, then went back to his cleaning up. With that little quiver around his heart again, he wondered who it was that O'Toole had set her sights on.
Whoever, Shawn thought, slamming a cupboard door just a little too forcefully, the man had better be worthy of her. — Nora Roberts

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

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

My son has a T-shirt that says, "Discipline doesn't cure Asperger's. But thanks for your concern. — Jennifer Cook 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

When I'm doing theatre, I prefer to be doing cinema. When I'm doing cinema, I prefer to be doing theatre. — 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

My father was a racetrack bookie. — 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