Peter O'Toole Quotes

We all had such larks. Yes, it was hard work but the friendships and the genuine respect we had for one another, that side I shall miss greatly. I've stopped acting, but I don't think I've finished using my voice. I could, and probably will, record the whole of Shakespeare's sonnets. They live at the side of my bed and are my constant companions.

Peter O'Toole

• Acting
• Missing
• Bed
• Constant
• Companion
• Sonnet

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• And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • People
  • Grow
  • Dawn

• When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'

  

  T-Pain
  • Song
  • Say
  • Finish

• At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Age
  • Young
  • Very

• It's a massive consumer frustration around the world about how long they have to wait after the U.S. to see television shows and movies. In the U.S., there's the frustration of having to wait a year to watch a movie in the format that you choose.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • Long
  • Movie

• I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • World
  • Writing
  • Why

• I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Movies
  • Right
  • Thing

• And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Time
  • Successful
  • Comfortable

• Luckily, I work for a company that promotes on performance.

  

  Pamela Nicholson
  • Work
  • Company
  • Performance

• Sometimes I panic to the point where I don't know what I'm thinking or doing. I have a full anxiety attack. I have them all the time anyway, but with auditioning, it's bad.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Bad

• Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, 'God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything.' And then you see the close-up, and it's so nuanced, and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Up
  • Great
  • God

• My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that looked like the Michelin Man.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Man
  • Me
  • Feet

• I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Music
  • Christmas
  • Loved

• It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Alone
  • Thoughts
  • Perspective

• I'm a huge horror movie fan. Beyond belief.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Movie
  • Belief
  • Horror

• I think prom is just about enjoying yourself.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Just

• I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • Good
  • Food

• I would like to enlighten people.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • People
  • Like
  • Would

• I've lived with boys and girls, and I find that boys are generally cleaner than girls. Generally! This is a big generalization!

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Find
  • Big
  • Lived

• Once you lose attachment to how you want things to be because you realize you don't control anything, there's a curiously liberating aspect of that. I've always been a control freak, I've always felt that if I try hard enough, everyone I love will be kept safe and everything will be okay. Being shown, in such brutal terms, that that's simply not the way it works, in someways, it messed me up. I've been through hell, but on another level, if you pile up so much tragedy, it either destroys you, or you just start laughing about it. Because at the end of the day, no one gets out alive.

  

  Daniele Bolelli
  • Enough
  • Realizing
  • Laughing

• Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • People
  • Important
  • Women

• I made an enjoyable living as a very young man, but I think as I became more comfortable and knowledgeable about myself and what I wanted, I moved into acting.

  

  Miguel Ferrer
  • Acting
  • Moved
  • Enjoyable

• If there wasn't something called acting, they would probably hospitalize people like me.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • People
  • Acting

• We all had such larks. Yes, it was hard work but the friendships and the genuine respect we had for one another, that side I shall miss greatly. I've stopped acting, but I don't think I've finished using my voice. I could, and probably will, record the whole of Shakespeare's sonnets. They live at the side of my bed and are my constant companions.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Acting
  • Missing
  • Bed