Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" It's a razor's edge, a romance with an old man and a young woman. "
Peter O'Toole
Edge
Young
Woman
Related Quotes:
" I've never looked for women. When I was a teenager, perhaps. "
Peter O'Toole
Never
Perhaps
Looked
" There is a legend. And to protest is daft. "
Peter O'Toole
Protest
Legend
Daft
" My father was a racetrack bookie. "
Peter O'Toole
Father
Racetrack
" Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church. "
Peter O'Toole
Pope
Thief
History
" My own favorite is something called Rogue Male. "
Peter O'Toole
Something
Favorite
Own
" 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. "
Peter O'Toole
Queen
Sunset
Dark
" I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone. "
Peter O'Toole
Men
Love
Good Company
" I love working with the young. "
Peter O'Toole
I Love
Young
Working
" 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
Me
Stage
" I love London. "
Peter O'Toole
Love
London
I Love
" No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That's what acting is. "
Peter O'Toole
Begins
Where
Should
" I've played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen. "
Peter O'Toole
Farce
Stage
Screen
" The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket. "
Peter O'Toole
Only
Been
Cricket
" I never found it easy to learn my lines. It was slog, slog, slog. "
Peter O'Toole
Found
Easy
Learn
" 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. "
Peter O'Toole
Actor
Work
Table
" Money is always a pressure. "
Peter O'Toole
Money
Pressure
Always
" No one ever watched competitive swimming. "
Peter O'Toole
Swimming
Ever
Watched
" I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions. "
Peter O'Toole
Facts
Education
Bad
" I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else. "
Peter O'Toole
Everybody
Baby
Working
" 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'm not a French singer. "
Peter O'Toole
Singer
French
" 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. "
Peter O'Toole
Time
Book
Finish
" Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months. "
Peter O'Toole
Months
Nine
Spent
" It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am. "
Peter O'Toole
Am
Earth
I Am
" Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it. "
Peter O'Toole
Being Human
Just
Man
" My favorite food from my homeland is Guinness. My second choice in Guinness. My third choice - would have to be Guinness. "
Peter O'Toole
Food
Choice
Favorite
" I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you. "
Peter O'Toole
Share
Memories
Prepared
" I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV. "
Peter O'Toole
Theatre
TV
Children
" In my day England, Scotland, Wales had 80 drama schools. There are none left. So there's no training, no discipline. "
Peter O'Toole
Day
Training
Left
" Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and I'm having as an actor. I didn't expect the rest. "
Peter O'Toole
Long
Good
Rest