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
mass people
People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.
love people
I love working with young people which to me is a big kick.
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.
people young bigs
I love working with young people, which is to me a big kick.
people interesting lear
The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.
emotional people support
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.
people energy young
When I work with young people, I grab energy from them by the handsful.
spent
Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.
four
Every three or four years, I'm hot again.
corner known oscar symbol
An Oscar is a symbol that is known in every corner of the world.
car crossing dad
My dad went at 86. A car killed him. He was crossing the road.
death
I have my very own Oscar now to be with me until death us do part.
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.
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.