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Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.
Peter O'Toole -
I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.
Peter O'Toole
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We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure.
Peter O'Toole -
Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.
Peter O'Toole -
I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.
Peter O'Toole -
Marriage is forever. It's like cement.
Peter O'Toole -
I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes.
Peter O'Toole -
I am human, all too bloody human.
Peter O'Toole
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What I like is bottomless flattery.
Peter O'Toole -
If you do not surrender, I shall be forced to shoot you through the head with a rather large bullet.
Peter O'Toole -
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.
Peter O'Toole -
I can't stand light. I hate weather. My idea of heaven is moving from one smoke-filled room to another.
Peter O'Toole -
It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.
Peter O'Toole -
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.
Peter O'Toole
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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?
Peter O'Toole -
It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.
Peter O'Toole -
I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.
Peter O'Toole -
My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.
Peter O'Toole -
I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!!!
Peter O'Toole