Peter O'Toole Quotes
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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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Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.
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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.
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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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The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.
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What I like is bottomless flattery.
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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'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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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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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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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'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 an actor, I'm a movie star!!!
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I am human, all too bloody human.
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It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.
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My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.