Peter O'Toole Quotes
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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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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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And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
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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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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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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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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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What I like is bottomless flattery.
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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 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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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 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.