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" I can't stand light. I hate weather. "
Peter O'Toole
Hate
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" Public crucifixion is no fun. "
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" I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer. "
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" I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star. "
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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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" If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it. "
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" I've stopped acting, but I don't think I've finished using my voice. I could, and probably will, record the whole of Shakespeare's sonnets. They live at the side of my bed and are my constant companions. "
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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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" My dad went at 86. A car killed him. He was crossing the road. "
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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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" The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket. "
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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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" I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV. "
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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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" If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word. "
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Word
" The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead. "
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" It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines. "
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" I had a pretty hilariously gloomy few years in the '70s. "
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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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" I love working with young people which to me is a big kick. "
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" Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months. "
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Nine
Spent
" My father was a racetrack bookie. "
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Father
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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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" I quite like being old. "
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" The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise. "
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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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" There is a legend. And to protest is daft. "
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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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