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" 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
Me
Doubt
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" I quite like being old. "
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Being
Like
" 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
Together
Good
" I have my very own Oscar now to be with me until death us do part. "
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Us
Death
Me
" I had a pretty hilariously gloomy few years in the '70s. "
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Years
Pretty
Had
" I love working with young people which to me is a big kick. "
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Working
Big
Love
" The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise. "
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Friends
Behind
Walking
" It's a razor's edge, a romance with an old man and a young woman. "
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Edge
Young
Woman
" I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV. "
Peter O'Toole
Theatre
TV
Children
" I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums. "
Peter O'Toole
Year
Fun
Great
" Every three or four years, I'm hot again. "
Peter O'Toole
Hot
Every
Four
" 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
" I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer. "
Peter O'Toole
Homer
About
Off
" 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
" 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. "
Peter O'Toole
Home
World
Women
" I can't stand light. I hate weather. "
Peter O'Toole
Hate
Light
Stand
" I've done everything that's possible to be done. "
Peter O'Toole
Possible
Done
Everything
" We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition. "
Peter O'Toole
Life
Desert
Time
" Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months. "
Peter O'Toole
Months
Nine
Spent
" 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. "
Peter O'Toole
Joy
Begin
Loved
" I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday. "
Peter O'Toole
Eyes
Front
Before
" The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do. "
Peter O'Toole
Good
Make
People
" Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it. "
Peter O'Toole
Being Human
Just
Man
" All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70. "
Peter O'Toole
Like
You
Years
" No one ever watched competitive swimming. "
Peter O'Toole
Swimming
Ever
Watched
" 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
" We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure. "
Peter O'Toole
Day
Morning
Me
" I love London. "
Peter O'Toole
Love
London
I Love
" Public crucifixion is no fun. "
Peter O'Toole
Crucifixion
Fun
Public
" When I work with young people, I grab energy from them by the handsful. "
Peter O'Toole
Work
People
Grab
" A few years back I was asked if I would go and meet a director and his various acolytes, and it occurred to me halfway through the meeting that what I was doing was auditioning. And I thought, 'Well, hang on buddy. I've done half a century of this.' "
Peter O'Toole
Meeting
Done
Thought