Peter O'Toole Quotes
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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'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.
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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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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 intention of uttering my last words on the stage. Room service and a couple of depraved young women will do me quite nicely for an exit.
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Anything an artist does is to show ourselves as we really are, which is a complex thing. I don't think that one work of Philosophy or Art, or Letters, or Acting, or Middle Playing, or Tightrope Walking, or Flea Circuses has made mankind better, if by better you mean kinder, wiser, more tolerant of each other. One thing self knowledge. Knoticayton: know thyself.
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I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.
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And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
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If you do not surrender, I shall be forced to shoot you through the head with a rather large bullet.
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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.
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It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.
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It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.
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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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I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!!!
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I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.
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I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes.
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I am human, all too bloody human.
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The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.
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My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.