Peter O'Toole Quotes
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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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And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
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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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The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.
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Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.
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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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I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes.
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Marriage is forever. It's like cement.
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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'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.
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What I like is bottomless flattery.
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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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I am human, all too bloody human.
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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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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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It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.
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I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!!!
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I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.
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My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.