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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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Peter O'Toole

Home

World

Women

" I love working with young people which to me is a big kick. "

" I take whatever good part comes along. "

" Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it. "

" Right after I left drama school, I had a job. "

" A rubber neck is a necessary part of equipment. "

" I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions. "

" I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you. "

Peter O'Toole

Memories

Prepared

" My favorite food from my homeland is Guinness. My second choice in Guinness. My third choice - would have to be Guinness. "

" Money is always a pressure. "

" My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life. "

Peter O'Toole

My Life

Rest

" The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do. "

" I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else. "

" 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. "

" The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead. "

" There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross. "

" No one ever watched competitive swimming. "

" 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. "

" I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone. "

" I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV. "

Peter O'Toole

Theatre

Children

" People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun. "

" I never found it easy to learn my lines. It was slog, slog, slog. "

" It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back. "

Peter O'Toole

Heart

Stage

" 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

Doubt

" I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, 'He needs someone to bowl to him.' "

" I had a pretty hilariously gloomy few years in the '70s. "

" My dad went at 86. A car killed him. He was crossing the road. "

" All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70. "

Peter O'Toole

You

Years

" There's always a hunger, when you're young, to go from peak to peak and avoid the valleys. "

Peter O'Toole

Always

Hunger

" Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church. "