Peter O'Toole Quotes
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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 tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.
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What I like is bottomless flattery.
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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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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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Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.
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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 wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.
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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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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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I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes.
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The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.
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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 distresses us to return work which is not perfect.
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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 am human, all too bloody human.
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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 an actor, I'm a movie star!!!
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My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.