Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead. "
Peter O'Toole
All My Friends
Dead
Friends
Related Quotes:
" I have unqualified admiration for Brad Pitt. "
Peter O'Toole
Unqualified
Admiration
Brad
" The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise. "
Peter O'Toole
Friends
Behind
Walking
" I know nothing at all about women. They are an amazing, beautiful mystery. "
Peter O'Toole
Amazing
Mystery
Beautiful
" Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead. "
Peter O'Toole
Moment
Dead
Stay
" 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
" I love working with young people which to me is a big kick. "
Peter O'Toole
Working
Big
Love
" There is a legend. And to protest is daft. "
Peter O'Toole
Protest
Legend
Daft
" 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
" 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
" 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 was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer. "
Peter O'Toole
Homer
About
Off
" I can now tell from the envelope whether or not it is a good script. "
Peter O'Toole
Tell
Script
Now
" Money is always a pressure. "
Peter O'Toole
Money
Pressure
Always
" I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else. "
Peter O'Toole
Everybody
Baby
Working
" People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun. "
Peter O'Toole
About
Talk
People
" 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
" I've never looked for women. When I was a teenager, perhaps. "
Peter O'Toole
Never
Perhaps
Looked
" You know when you've found a part that you want to play. You know it because the part takes you over. It sits in the script waiting for you to play him. "
Peter O'Toole
Him
You
Want
" I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star. "
Peter O'Toole
Actor
Star
Movie Star
" I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian. "
Peter O'Toole
Irish
Truth Is
Truth
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I'm not from the working class. I'm from the criminal class. "
Peter O'Toole
Class
Criminal
Working Class
" 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
" Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act. "
Peter O'Toole
Act
Thought
Little
" Always a bridesmaid never a bride my foot! "
Peter O'Toole
Bride
Never
Always
" The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket. "
Peter O'Toole
Only
Been
Cricket
" Right after I left drama school, I had a job. "
Peter O'Toole
Had
Left
Right
" I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV. "
Peter O'Toole
Theatre
TV
Children