Peter O'Toole Quotes
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There's a remedy for everything except death.
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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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When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.
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George Eliot is my only steady girlfriend. We go to bed together every night.
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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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Acting has been described as farting about in disguise.
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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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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 wouldn't mind being a lord.
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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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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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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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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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I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.
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I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you.
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For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding.
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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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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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The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.
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I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.
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It was a mistake and I made the mistake because I was conservative and played safe. And that way lies failure." "Must do it... constantly go to the well... constantly try, try, try. Dare. Dare, Dare. Who dares wins.