Peter O'Toole Quotes
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There's a remedy for everything except death.
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Booze is the most outrageous of drugs which is why I chose it.
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I don't go for this auto-cannibalism. Very damaging.
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I can make the best French toast.
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When I work with young people, I grab energy from them by the handsful.
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I did quite enjoy the days when one went for a beer at one's local in Paris and woke up in Corsica.
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A victory? What have we won? We've won a rock in the middle of a wasteland, on the shores of a poisoned sea.
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I put steam on the table by being an actor. That is how I live. The longer I live, the more expensive it becomes. So I do my work. And I can't be immensely picky. How many beautiful scripts come in one's lifetime? I have had more than anybody, practically.
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There is a legend. And to protest is daft.
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I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum.
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I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.
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The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.
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It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.
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I became a professional cricket teacher about 20 years ago. I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, he needs someone to bowl to him.
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I can't stand light. I hate weather.
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There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians.
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Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.
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There are only two things one has to bear in mind. One has to be credulous - able to believe - and skeptical - able to not believe, because if you are not skeptical, you will believe rubbish. If you are not credulous you will learn nothing and the only way to balance those two is to recognize the mystery of things.
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When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.
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If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it. If you give up drinking, don't go moaning about it; go back on the bottle. Do. As. Thou. Wilt.
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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.
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If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it.
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One time in the late '50s, when Peter Finch, Laurence Harvey, and I were all offered the same movie role - the assumption being that we weren't friends - we marched up to producer Dino De Laurentiis's door and declared in unison, 'We don't think we're suitable for the part.'
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What kind of people we become depends crucially on the stories we are nurtured on.