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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Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.
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The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.
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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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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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Marriage is forever. It's like cement.
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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 the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.
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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 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 not working-class: I come from the criminal classes.
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What I like is bottomless flattery.
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I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.
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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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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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I am human, all too bloody human.
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My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.