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" I have my very own Oscar now to be with me until death us do part. "
Peter O'Toole
Us
Death
Me
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" When I work with young people, I grab energy from them by the handsful. "
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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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" No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That's what acting is. "
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" I take whatever good part comes along. "
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" Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church. "
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" I never found it easy to learn my lines. It was slog, slog, slog. "
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" People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun. "
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" I can't stand light. I hate weather. "
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" I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else. "
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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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" There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross. "
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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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" 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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" Every three or four years, I'm hot again. "
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Every
Four
" I've done everything that's possible to be done. "
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Everything
" I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian. "
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Truth
" Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act. "
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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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Study
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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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" 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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Meeting
Done
Thought
" 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
Training
Left
" If I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself. "
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Going
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" My plumbing is no one's business but my own. "
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" I've never looked for women. When I was a teenager, perhaps. "
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" I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. "
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" I wouldn't mind being a lord. "
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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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Brad