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