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" Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead. "
Peter O'Toole
Moment
Dead
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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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" It's a razor's edge, a romance with an old man and a young woman. "
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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 know nothing at all about women. They are an amazing, beautiful mystery. "
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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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" Public crucifixion is no fun. "
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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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" An Oscar is a symbol that is known in every corner of the world. "
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" Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months. "
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" When I work with young people, I grab energy from them by the handsful. "
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" I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian. "
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" I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday. "
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" There's always a hunger, when you're young, to go from peak to peak and avoid the valleys. "
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