Peter O'Toole Quotes
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Acting has been described as farting about in disguise.
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George Eliot is my only steady girlfriend. We go to bed together every night.
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I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.
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I wouldn't mind being a lord.
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Always a bridesmaid never a bride my foot!
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I'm a very physical actor. I use everything - toes, teeth, ears, everything. I don't simply mean physical in the sense of movement and vigour. I find myself remembering the shape of a scene by how I'm standing, what I'm doing.
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For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding.
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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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When my father would come home from the track after a good day, the whole room would light up; it was fairyland. But when he lost, it was black. In our house, it was always either a wake ... or a wedding.
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I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.
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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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If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word.
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There's a remedy for everything except death.
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Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.
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I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you.
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My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfillment and material comfort. It has brought me together with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits.
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Question: How do you know you're God? Answer: Simple. When I pray to him, I find I'm talking to myself.
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I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.
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If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.
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Everyone praises Sachin Tendulkar. He may be a genius in his own right but in my book, Rahul Dravid is the artist. Dravid's defence tactics, his strokes, his cuts, his grace are truly amazing. I'd like to meet the chap sometime and take my hat off to him.
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We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure.
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I love working with young people, which is to me a big kick.
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In the theater you can chain a blue-assed baboon in the stalls and with a good script, good actors, and a good set you'd have what is called a production. With the cinema someone has to know about lenses and fine things. I have no time for the "auteur de cinema." To me, it's meaningless.
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The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.