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" Always a bridesmaid never a bride my foot! "
Peter O'Toole
Bride
Never
Always
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" My own favorite is something called Rogue Male. "
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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 take whatever good part comes along. "
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" I love London. "
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" The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead. "
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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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" Money is always a pressure. "
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" I love working with the young. "
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" I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I love working with young people which to me is a big kick. "
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" I quite like being old. "
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" I have my very own Oscar now to be with me until death us do part. "
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" I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV. "
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TV
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" I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you. "
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Memories
Prepared
" Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months. "
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Nine
Spent
" I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday. "
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Eyes
Front
Before
" 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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Choice
Favorite
" 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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Done
Thought
" Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church. "
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Thief
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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. "
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Day
Morning
Me
" All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70. "
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You
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" In my day England, Scotland, Wales had 80 drama schools. There are none left. So there's no training, no discipline. "
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Day
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Left
" 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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" I can now tell from the envelope whether or not it is a good script. "
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" I wouldn't mind being a lord. "
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Mind
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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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