Peter O'Toole Quotes
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People're artists they're doing something, taking a hunk of chaps, giving it some order, some form, and presenting it saying here is my little song and dance, my chaos.
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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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Being sober for so many years is getting interesting.
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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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Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.
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I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.
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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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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 love working with young people, which is to me a big kick.
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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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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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What I like is bottomless flattery.
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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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Marriage is forever. It's like cement.
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Always a bridesmaid never a bride my foot!
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I wouldn't mind being a lord.
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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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It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.
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I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you.
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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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George Eliot is my only steady girlfriend. We go to bed together every night.
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I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.
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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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You talk about auteur de cinema having things in their heads and putting them all across, can you imagine Shakespeare writing screenplays?