Peter O'Toole Quotes

I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.

Peter O'Toole

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• There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Problem
  • Effort
  • Worth

• No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Best

• It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Better

• Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Game
  • Team
  • College

• I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Play
  • Hand
  • Best

• It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • True
  • Terrorism

• I know people who prepare their roles in such a way that they technically look ahead and memorize their gestures, and then they stick to it. Those that are technically proficient enough can make it seem natural, but they do that and don't really take in what other people are doing.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Know
  • Doing

• To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Me
  • Human
  • Passions

• Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Fun
  • Serious
  • Having Fun

• New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • World
  • America
  • Small

• I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don't you just clothesline the guy?

  

  Owen Hart
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Stupid

• I remember in high school thinking that I wanted to be a lawyer, and now I realize I saw that movie 'And Justice for All' when I was a kid and thought, 'That's what lawyers do, and I want to get up and yell and scream in the middle of a courtroom.'

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • School

• I'll never get another first premiere again, especially at Sundance. I've just been trying to fully engage myself in everything that's going on, and I hope to see other movies here while I'm here! I really want to!

  

  Harley Quinn Smith
  • Trying
  • Hope
  • Myself

• History class was a forty-minute squirm from which I would emerge unscathed by insight. Down the hall in English Lit, though, there were stories to be had, and it was stories I craved.

  

  Nancy Horan
  • History
  • English
  • Down

• I have a harder time finding somebody. The problem is we were growing professionally during the years most people were concentrating on being a person.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • People
  • Time
  • Growing

• Something dreadful happens to students between first and twelfth grades, and it's not just puberty.

  

  Carl Sagan

• The building’s beauty is a metaphor for hers Mumtaz Mahal and is thus contemplated as feminine. It is builder's feeling for the woman interred within. What else but passion, they ask, could have inspired something so perfect?

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Feeling
  • Perfect
  • Passion

• All people need to know how AIDS is transmitted, and every country has an obligation to educate its citizens. This is why every country must also improve literacy, especially for women and girls, so that they can make wise choices that will keep them healthy and safe.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • Women
  • Country

• For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Sympathy
  • Intuition

• I would say to the leaders of the Soviet Union, and to their people, that if either of our countries is to be fully secure, we need a much better weapon than the H-bomb - a weapon better than ballistic missiles or nuclear submarines - and that better weapon is peaceful cooperation.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • People

• don't mean to sound weird but I get so immersed in the source material when I'm working on a movie that I kind of lose the line between what I thought of and what was in the book.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Mean

• We have a system which, though far from perfect, is strong with idealism. It gives elbow room for men of all races and all beliefs. It is vital and dynamic. And it works. We have the means of shaping the world in our pattern. If we do, freedom will be assured for all men. The decision is in the hands of this generation. It is a challenge to our political competence. For Western civilization it is the greatest challenge of all time.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Men
  • Political
  • Strong

• Sometimes when you get an opportunity to appropriate your work, or use whatever collateral you have, for something good, you think, "Well, yeah, you should do this." You're not in any way qualified to do it, but I was so sick of hearing so many unqualified people say that global warming doesn't exist, I thought, "Well, I'm no less qualified than they are, so I can deal with doing it."

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Opportunity

• I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Men
  • Extraordinary
  • Ordinary