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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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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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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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 tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.
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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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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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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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If you do not surrender, I shall be forced to shoot you through the head with a rather large bullet.
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The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.
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It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.
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I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes.
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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.