Peter O'Toole Quotes
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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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The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead.
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The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.
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Acting has been described as farting about in disguise.
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If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.
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And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
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When I work with young people, I grab energy from them by the handsful.
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I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.
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I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you.
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If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it.
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Many years ago I sent an old, beloved jacket to a cleaner, the Sycamore Cleaners. It was a leather jacket covered in Guinness and blood and marmalade, one of those jobs... and it came back with a little note pinned to it, and on the note it said, 'It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.' So that will do for me. That can go on my tombstone.
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I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theater—because at first glance I could see through him and he could see through me, and he knew that I knew that he knew. Look, love, I've been bullied all my life by bigger experts than Larry Olivier, I can assure you, and he's just got to get in line.
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I can make the best French toast.
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He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once.
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It was a mistake and I made the mistake because I was conservative and played safe. And that way lies failure." "Must do it... constantly go to the well... constantly try, try, try. Dare. Dare, Dare. Who dares wins.
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If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it. If you give up drinking, don't go moaning about it; go back on the bottle. Do. As. Thou. Wilt.
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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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There's a remedy for everything except death.
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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.
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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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George Eliot is my only steady girlfriend. We go to bed together every night.
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I have no intention of uttering my last words on the stage. Room service and a couple of depraved young women will do me quite nicely for an exit.
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Anything an artist does is to show ourselves as we really are, which is a complex thing. I don't think that one work of Philosophy or Art, or Letters, or Acting, or Middle Playing, or Tightrope Walking, or Flea Circuses has made mankind better, if by better you mean kinder, wiser, more tolerant of each other. One thing self knowledge. Knoticayton: know thyself.
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I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.
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Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.
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Question: How do you know you're God? Answer: Simple. When I pray to him, I find I'm talking to myself.
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I do not choose to be a common man…it is my right to be uncommon—if I can…I seek opportunity—not security…I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed… to refuse to barter incentive for a dole… I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopias….
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For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding.
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I can't stand light. I hate weather. My idea of heaven is moving from one smoke-filled room to another.
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The moment you start dividing thought and feeling, the ratio of sinitive from the intuitive, you're dead. There is no difference between emotion and thought. You can be unreasonable.
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