Peter O'Toole Quotes
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.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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Everyone is always telling me that I must be exhausted, but I've learned how to use my time well, and that includes holidays to recharge. I always try to give myself big chunks of time to think about what the next project is going to be.
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Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.
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I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love.
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People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'
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I pretty much will do anything for a laugh.
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Fantasy is often better than reality. It’s much more inspiring not to go to places than to go.
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But to say that Sarah Palin and the tea party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the American people and, and their dissatisfaction with this health care bill.
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For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
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Inequality is not the same thing as unfairness; and, to my mind, it is the latter that has incited so much political turmoil in the rich world today.
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I've spent a long time giving people the benefit of the doubt, and I'm tired of it.
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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.
