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" I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else. "
Peter O'Toole
Everybody
Baby
Working
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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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" 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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" 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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Table
" My dad went at 86. A car killed him. He was crossing the road. "
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Car
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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
Word
" 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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" People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun. "
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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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Time
Book
Finish
" I have unqualified admiration for Brad Pitt. "
Peter O'Toole
Unqualified
Admiration
Brad
" There is a legend. And to protest is daft. "
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Protest
Legend
Daft
" Money is always a pressure. "
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Money
Pressure
Always
" Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act. "
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Act
Thought
Little
" 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. "
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Away
Me
Doubt
" No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That's what acting is. "
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Begins
Where
Should
" There's always a hunger, when you're young, to go from peak to peak and avoid the valleys. "
Peter O'Toole
Always
Go
Hunger
" I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you. "
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Share
Memories
Prepared
" I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star. "
Peter O'Toole
Actor
Star
Movie Star
" When I work with young people, I grab energy from them by the handsful. "
Peter O'Toole
Work
People
Grab
" I've never looked for women. When I was a teenager, perhaps. "
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Never
Perhaps
Looked
" It's a razor's edge, a romance with an old man and a young woman. "
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Edge
Young
Woman
" I can't stand light. I hate weather. "
Peter O'Toole
Hate
Light
Stand
" There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross. "
Peter O'Toole
Rest
Three
Audience
" I never found it easy to learn my lines. It was slog, slog, slog. "
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Found
Easy
Learn
" A rubber neck is a necessary part of equipment. "
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Part
Neck
Equipment
" I've played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen. "
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Farce
Stage
Screen
" 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
" 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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Year
Fun
Great
" My plumbing is no one's business but my own. "
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Business
My Own
" It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am. "
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Earth
I Am