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" All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70. "
Peter O'Toole
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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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" 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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" I'm not a French singer. "
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" I'm not from the working class. I'm from the criminal class. "
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" I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum. "
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" The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do. "
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" Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead. "
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" My favorite food from my homeland is Guinness. My second choice in Guinness. My third choice - would have to be Guinness. "
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" I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer. "
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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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" I have unqualified admiration for Brad Pitt. "
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" I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV. "
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" I know nothing at all about women. They are an amazing, beautiful mystery. "
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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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" I put steam on the table by being an actor. That is how I live. The longer I live, the more expensive it becomes. So I do my work. And I can't be immensely picky. How many beautiful scripts come in one's lifetime? I have had more than anybody, practically. "
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" My dad went at 86. A car killed him. He was crossing the road. "
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" Every three or four years, I'm hot again. "
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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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" The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket. "
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" I wouldn't mind being a lord. "
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" I had a pretty hilariously gloomy few years in the '70s. "
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" Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and I'm having as an actor. I didn't expect the rest. "
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" It's a razor's edge, a romance with an old man and a young woman. "
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" If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it. "
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" The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead. "
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" It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back. "
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" I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday. "
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