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Always a bridesmaid never a bride my foot!
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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.
Peter O'Toole
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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.
Peter O'Toole -
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.
Peter O'Toole -
I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.
Peter O'Toole -
If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word.
Peter O'Toole -
I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.
Peter O'Toole -
When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.
Peter O'Toole
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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.
Peter O'Toole -
I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you.
Peter O'Toole -
The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.
Peter O'Toole -
Acting has been described as farting about in disguise.
Peter O'Toole -
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.
Peter O'Toole -
I love working with young people, which is to me a big kick.
Peter O'Toole
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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.
Peter O'Toole -
I wouldn't mind being a lord.
Peter O'Toole -
Question: How do you know you're God? Answer: Simple. When I pray to him, I find I'm talking to myself.
Peter O'Toole -
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.
Peter O'Toole -
The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.
Peter O'Toole -
For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding.
Peter O'Toole
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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.
Peter O'Toole -
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.
Peter O'Toole -
And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Peter O'Toole -
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.
Peter O'Toole