Peter O'Toole Quotes

I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.

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• Everyone has hiccups in their families.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Everyone
  • Families

• Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Him
  • Near
  • Unto

• There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Nothing
  • Wrong
  • Eyebrow

• In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Character
  • Man
  • Son

• I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Film
  • Interested
  • Student

• They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Show
  • Materials
  • Tease

• Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Taken

• I never said most of the things I said.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Funny
  • Never
  • Said

• Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Time
  • American
  • Too Much

• You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • You
  • End
  • Watch

• Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Why
  • Words
  • Moment

• My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • Man
  • Rest
  • Name

• When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Time
  • Mother
  • House

• Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Living
  • Duty

• If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • You
  • Well
  • Bath

• I realized, at a certain point, all my big people were dying. I couldn't see a clearer picture: what's the difference between me and him, of me being in a casket?

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Picture
  • Dying

• I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Deep
  • Victory
  • Ending

• I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • World
  • Thought
  • Model

• A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals to understand that they might provide a relatively simple entry into a problem as complex as cancer.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Reading
  • Simple
  • Problem

• I love graphic novels - I love reading them, I enjoyed writing them, I would love to go back and do them again. I hope I'm savvy enough to do them in the right way.

  

  John Ridley
  • Writing
  • Hope
  • Reading

• Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn’t mean you’ve reached them. With reading comprehension being what it is in the U. S., you can safely toss that one out the window. If you want to judge by the listening habits of people who buy records, the first thing they do is put it on and talk over it.

  

  Frank Zappa
  • People
  • Reading
  • Listening

• I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Cinema

• I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Reading
  • Television
  • Cinema