Peter O'Toole Quotes
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.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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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.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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Small businesses all across this nation are tired of the uncertainty created by Washington.
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We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.
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I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'
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There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
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We're seeing TV series that are as good as movies were in the '70s and '80s - shows like 'The Wire,' 'The Sopranos' and 'Breaking Bad.'
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I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.
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I can't say that the ending of a story is always the best part of the story, and yet there's sort of this implicit idea that the finale is somehow supposed to be the mind-blowing best episode of a show. The question is: Why is that? Why do people make that assumption?
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So much of what I do has been based off of my heroes and guys I've watched come up.
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My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.
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I don't know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad.
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The future of the world's film industry is in China because we have 1.3 billion people.
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Nicht das Bewußtsein bestimmt das Leben, sondern das Leben bestimmt das Bewußtsein.
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He wanted to be who he was, not the person he would become if he lost the one trait that distinguished him from everybody else, no matter how perverse that decision seemed to others.
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Manus haec inimica tyrannisEnse petit placidam sub libertate quietem.
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There is a child in all of us, a person who believes in a glorious future.
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Did the rest of the Austrians understand what was happening to the Jews? Did they understand that we were being dispossessed, that we were beginning to go hungry? By way of answer let me tell you a story. Once after the Anschluss, I was stopped by a policeman for jaywalking. He ordered me to pay a stiff fine. "But I am Jewish," I said. That was all he needed to hear to know that I was penniless and could not possibly pay, and he let me go. So you see, when they tell you that they did not realize how the Jews were being despoiled, you must never believe them. They all knew.
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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.
