Peter O'Toole Quotes
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I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
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There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
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Oh my goodness me, Daniel Day-Lewis – huge, huge fan of his. I've always loved his philosophy on acting: he always talks about returning to a state of play.
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Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
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I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.
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I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.
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Well, my brother started acting before I did.
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It was really unusual to go from being in university for four years to all of a sudden acting every day. I'd never been able to do it exclusively like that. It was always sort of like my secret thing that I did privately.
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I grew up dancing my whole life, and I always kind of perceived that's what I would do professionally. But when I caught the acting bug, I knew I needed to go with no turning back.
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If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets.
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You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get.
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I think in the acting world you either manage that transition to older roles, or you stick with what you've always done and then discover nobody can bear you doing it as an older person.
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When it comes to acting, I've always had a passion for entertaining and for making people laugh. On the music side, I really want to come out as an artist because I want people to see who I really am... artistically, I tend to be drawn to the darker things. What the music will be able to do is show people that I am an adult now.
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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.
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I would love to continue acting. Maybe one day I would like to try writing and directing.
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'Crystal Fairy' was one of the first movies I did after I recommitted to the idea of acting.
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Acting has never excited me.
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In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
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We have a culture in Freeport, especially in our football department. We feel that we're the best team on Long Island, in New York, hands down.
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When you get older you have to be careful about always saying, "Things aren't as good as they used to be." But it's hard not to.
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My students often ask me, 'What is sociology?' And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way in which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see.'
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Acting has been described as farting about in disguise.
