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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.' "
Peter O'Toole
Him
Born
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" I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums. "
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" Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead. "
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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'm not from the working class. I'm from the criminal class. "
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" I quite like being old. "
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" I've done everything that's possible to be done. "
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" I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star. "
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" Public crucifixion is no fun. "
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" I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. "
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" It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year. "
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" I take whatever good part comes along. "
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" I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday. "
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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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" Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months. "
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" I never found it easy to learn my lines. It was slog, slog, slog. "
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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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" It's a razor's edge, a romance with an old man and a young woman. "
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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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Front
Me
" Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church. "
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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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Sunset
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" 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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" Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act. "
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" I love working with the young. "
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" My father was a racetrack bookie. "
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Racetrack
" 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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" My dad went at 86. A car killed him. He was crossing the road. "
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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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" A rubber neck is a necessary part of equipment. "
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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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