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" 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
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" I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, 'He needs someone to bowl to him.' "
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" I'm not from the working class. I'm from the criminal class. "
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" There is a legend. And to protest is daft. "
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" I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone. "
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" Money is always a pressure. "
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" There's always a hunger, when you're young, to go from peak to peak and avoid the valleys. "
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" I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working with Richard Burton in Beckett was another great joy. "
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" I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star. "
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Star
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" The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead. "
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All My Friends
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Friends
" People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun. "
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" 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
" No one ever watched competitive swimming. "
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Ever
Watched
" I can't stand light. I hate weather. "
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Stand
" I have my very own Oscar now to be with me until death us do part. "
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Death
Me
" 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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Queen
Sunset
Dark
" 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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Writing
Art
Down
" Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act. "
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Thought
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" My favorite food from my homeland is Guinness. My second choice in Guinness. My third choice - would have to be Guinness. "
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Food
Choice
Favorite
" 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
" 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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Home
World
Women
" I can make the best French toast. "
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I Can
Make
Best
" I take whatever good part comes along. "
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Good
Along
Part
" 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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People
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" It's a razor's edge, a romance with an old man and a young woman. "
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Edge
Young
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" My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life. "
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Rest
" Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months. "
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Nine
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