QUOTES by Peter O'Toole
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There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.
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You know when you've found a part that you want to play. You know it because the part takes you over. It sits in the script waiting for you to play him.
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No one can take Jesus away from me. There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.
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I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, 'He needs someone to bowl to him.'
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Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.
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Actors have given up their clout. Now decision making is in the hands of lighting men, designers, bankers, special-effects people. We need to cut that out and just go with the most able trained actors in the business.
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When I'm doing theatre, I prefer to be doing cinema. When I'm doing cinema, I prefer to be doing theatre.
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If I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.
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Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.
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Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.
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Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.
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Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working with Richard Burton in Beckett was another great joy.
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We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.
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All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70.
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No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That's what acting is.
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I've played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen.
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I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions.
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A few years back I was asked if I would go and meet a director and his various acolytes, and it occurred to me halfway through the meeting that what I was doing was auditioning. And I thought, 'Well, hang on buddy. I've done half a century of this.'
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The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.
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