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" The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket. "
Peter O'Toole
Only
Been
Cricket
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" 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
" 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 can make the best French toast. "
Peter O'Toole
I Can
Make
Best
" I've stopped acting, but I don't think I've finished using my voice. I could, and probably will, record the whole of Shakespeare's sonnets. They live at the side of my bed and are my constant companions. "
Peter O'Toole
Live
Will
Voice
" I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian. "
Peter O'Toole
Irish
Truth Is
Truth
" My father was a racetrack bookie. "
Peter O'Toole
Father
Racetrack
" I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, 'He needs someone to bowl to him.' "
Peter O'Toole
Him
Born
Son
" When I'm doing theatre, I prefer to be doing cinema. When I'm doing cinema, I prefer to be doing theatre. "
Peter O'Toole
Theatre
Doing
Cinema
" 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 have no memories I'm prepared to share with you. "
Peter O'Toole
Share
Memories
Prepared
" Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead. "
Peter O'Toole
Moment
Dead
Stay
" 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've never looked for women. When I was a teenager, perhaps. "
Peter O'Toole
Never
Perhaps
Looked
" I love working with young people which to me is a big kick. "
Peter O'Toole
Working
Big
Love
" 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
" 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. "
Peter O'Toole
People
Together
Good
" My own favorite is something called Rogue Male. "
Peter O'Toole
Something
Favorite
Own
" My plumbing is no one's business but my own. "
Peter O'Toole
Own
Business
My Own
" I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday. "
Peter O'Toole
Eyes
Front
Before
" 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
" I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV. "
Peter O'Toole
Theatre
TV
Children
" I quite like being old. "
Peter O'Toole
Quite
Being
Like
" 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
" 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
" The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise. "
Peter O'Toole
Friends
Behind
Walking
" The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead. "
Peter O'Toole
All My Friends
Dead
Friends
" Always a bridesmaid never a bride my foot! "
Peter O'Toole
Bride
Never
Always
" 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. "
Peter O'Toole
Writing
Art
Down
" I know nothing at all about women. They are an amazing, beautiful mystery. "
Peter O'Toole
Amazing
Mystery
Beautiful