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" An Oscar is a symbol that is known in every corner of the world. "
Peter O'Toole
Every
World
Symbol
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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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" 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 have unqualified admiration for Brad Pitt. "
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Unqualified
Admiration
Brad
" Money is always a pressure. "
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Money
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Always
" My dad went at 86. A car killed him. He was crossing the road. "
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Car
Crossing
Road
" There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross. "
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Three
Audience
" I can make the best French toast. "
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I Can
Make
Best
" I've played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen. "
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Stage
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" I love London. "
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Love
London
I Love
" I take whatever good part comes along. "
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" Always a bridesmaid never a bride my foot! "
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Bride
Never
Always
" I wouldn't mind being a lord. "
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Being
Mind
Lord
" 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. "
Peter O'Toole
Queen
Sunset
Dark
" People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun. "
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About
Talk
People
" I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian. "
Peter O'Toole
Irish
Truth Is
Truth
" A rubber neck is a necessary part of equipment. "
Peter O'Toole
Part
Neck
Equipment
" I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, 'He needs someone to bowl to him.' "
Peter O'Toole
Him
Born
Son
" Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it. "
Peter O'Toole
Being Human
Just
Man
" My favorite food from my homeland is Guinness. My second choice in Guinness. My third choice - would have to be Guinness. "
Peter O'Toole
Food
Choice
Favorite
" The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket. "
Peter O'Toole
Only
Been
Cricket
" I love working with the young. "
Peter O'Toole
I Love
Young
Working
" 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. "
Peter O'Toole
Away
Me
Doubt
" I'm not from the working class. I'm from the criminal class. "
Peter O'Toole
Class
Criminal
Working Class
" 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. "
Peter O'Toole
Actor
Work
Table
" The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do. "
Peter O'Toole
Good
Make
People
" I quite like being old. "
Peter O'Toole
Quite
Being
Like
" I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. "
Peter O'Toole
Monotony
Smooth
Man
" 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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Men
Decision
Business
" 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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Theatre
Doing
Cinema
" Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months. "
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Months
Nine
Spent