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" I'm not from the working class. I'm from the criminal class. "
Peter O'Toole
Class
Criminal
Working Class
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" The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket. "
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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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" All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70. "
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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
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" For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding. "
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" No one ever watched competitive swimming. "
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Watched
" I know nothing at all about women. They are an amazing, beautiful mystery. "
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Beautiful
" Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world. "
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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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Now
" 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
" 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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