Peter O'Toole Quotes
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.
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I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in.
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I used to rarely go on film sets, as I felt it was very boring to see the same shot being done so many times. I felt I had nothing to do. I used to irritate the cameramen.
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I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.
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It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.
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I can't even remember when I first went, 'I want to be an actress.' It's always been inside of me.
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The most important effects of Christianity went out from it without the intention of the Church, or even against its will.
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Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate.
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I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now.
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My mother used to dress me in quite good-taste clothes, and I really wanted things that were sparkly and spangly and trashy and nasty. I don't know if I ever chose fashion; it was just there in me.
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Whatever's good about your book should be good on page 1, or very few editors are going to get to page 2.
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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
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Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.
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People who have never done theatre before, and have only worked in front of a camera, would find it very difficult, I think, to know how to command a stage and work with the logistics of being on stage. They're very different. The theatre is quite tricky, actually.
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I love working with young people, which is to me a big kick.
