Words matter. These are the best Peter O’Toole Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.
It’s a razor’s edge, a romance with an old man and a young woman.
I love working with young people which to me is a big kick.
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.
Money is always a pressure.
No one ever watched competitive swimming.
I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer.
My dad went at 86. A car killed him. He was crossing the road.
I can now tell from the envelope whether or not it is a good script.
I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren’t bad things on which to ponder a few notions.
I’m not an actor, I’m a movie star.
It’s such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.
When I’m doing theatre, I prefer to be doing cinema. When I’m doing cinema, I prefer to be doing theatre.
Right after I left drama school, I had a job.
A rubber neck is a necessary part of equipment.
The good parts are the people who don’t make do. They’re the interesting people. Lear doesn’t make do.
The common denominator of all my friends is that they’re dead.
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.
It’s my job, it’s what I do, it’s what I’m on earth to do and it’s who I am.
Always a bridesmaid never a bride my foot!
People talk about the ’60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the ’50s had begun.
Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we’re dead.
I’ve done everything that’s possible to be done.
I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren’t bad things on which to ponder a few notions.
I can’t stand light. I hate weather.
I can make the best French toast.
The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.
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.
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.
I love working with young people which to me is a big kick.
I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.
I have my very own Oscar now to be with me until death us do part.
I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, ‘He needs someone to bowl to him.’
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.
There’s always a hunger, when you’re young, to go from peak to peak and avoid the valleys.
I love working with the young.
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.
It’s such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.
I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.
My plumbing is no one’s business but my own.
I know nothing at all about women. They are an amazing, beautiful mystery.
I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday.
My own favorite is something called Rogue Male.
I’m Irish. That means I’m Catholic. But, truth is, now I’m a retired Christian.
My favorite food from my homeland is Guinness. My second choice in Guinness. My third choice – would have to be Guinness.
My favorite food from my homeland is Guinness. My second choice in Guinness. My third choice – would have to be Guinness.
The common denominator of all my friends is that they’re dead.
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.
I’m a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.
I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.
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.
It’s a razor’s edge, a romance with an old man and a young woman.
If you can’t do something willingly and joyfully, then don’t do it.
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.
I’m not a French singer.
In my day England, Scotland, Wales had 80 drama schools. There are none left. So there’s no training, no discipline.
The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.
My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.
I’m not an actor, I’m a movie star.
The only thing I’ve ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.
When I work with young people, I grab energy from them by the handsful.
I’ve played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen.
If I’m not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can’t write a word.
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.
I have my very own Oscar now to be with me until death us do part.
I’m not from the working class. I’m from the criminal class.
The only thing I’ve ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.
I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.
I never found it easy to learn my lines. It was slog, slog, slog.
I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer.
I’m not from the working class. I’m from the criminal class.
I wouldn’t mind being a lord.
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.
I have unqualified admiration for Brad Pitt.
I love working with the young.
My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.
