Peter O'Toole Quotes
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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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What kind of people we become depends crucially on the stories we are nurtured on.
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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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Being sober for so many years is getting interesting.
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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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I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.
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What I like is bottomless flattery.
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Marriage is forever. It's like cement.
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We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.
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Always a bridesmaid never a bride my foot!
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The moment you start dividing thought and feeling, the ratio of sinitive from the intuitive, you're dead. There is no difference between emotion and thought. You can be unreasonable.
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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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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 love working with young people, which is to me a big kick.
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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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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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I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you.
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I wouldn't mind being a lord.
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George Eliot is my only steady girlfriend. We go to bed together every night.
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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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It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.
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You talk about auteur de cinema having things in their heads and putting them all across, can you imagine Shakespeare writing screenplays?
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I can't stand light. I hate weather. My idea of heaven is moving from one smoke-filled room to another.
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I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.