Peter O'Toole
Peter O'Toole
Peter Seamus O'Toole was a British-Irish stage and film actor. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and began working in the theatre, gaining recognition as a Shakespearean actor at the Bristol Old Vic and with the English Stage Company before making his film debut in 1959...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth2 August 1932
CountryIreland
course deeply highest honour industry joined motion pay people picture
It is the highest honour that the motion picture industry can pay to anybody. I joined people like Chaplin, so of course I'm deeply honoured.
none wales
In my day England, Scotland, Wales had 80 drama schools. There are none left. So there's no training, no discipline.
amazing women
I know nothing at all about women. They are an amazing, beautiful mystery.
envelope good whether
I can now tell from the envelope whether or not it is a good script.
avoid
There's always a hunger, when you're young, to go from peak to peak and avoid the valleys.
enormous figure historical peace tremendous
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.
rubber
A rubber neck is a necessary part of equipment.
found
I never found it easy to learn my lines. It was slog, slog, slog.
played sort
I've played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen.
mass people
People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.
rest three
There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.
business cut decision given hands lighting men trained
Actors have given up their clout. Now decision making is in the hands of lighting men, designers, bankers, special-effects people. We need to cut that out and just go with the most able trained actors in the business.
constant finished record side stopped using
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.
script
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.