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
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If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word.
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Always a bridesmaid never a bride my foot!
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I became a professional cricket teacher about 20 years ago. I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, he needs someone to bowl to him.
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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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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.
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It was around 1985 before I heard the news of President Kennedy's assassination.
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It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.
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The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead.
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I can make the best French toast.
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There's a remedy for everything except death.
heart gone film
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.
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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.
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There is a legend. And to protest is daft.
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I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.