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Peter O’Toole Quotes

I take whatever good part comes along.

– Peter O’Toole

All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70.

– Peter O’Toole

I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday.

– Peter O’Toole

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.

– Peter O’Toole

I’m not from the working class. I’m from the criminal class.

– Peter O’Toole

It’s a razor’s edge, a romance with an old man and a young woman.

– Peter O’Toole

I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.

– Peter O’Toole

In my day England, Scotland, Wales had 80 drama schools. There are none left. So there’s no training, no discipline.

– Peter O’Toole

It’s such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.

– Peter O’Toole

My father was a racetrack bookie.

– Peter O’Toole

I love London.

– Peter O’Toole

If you can’t do something willingly and joyfully, then don’t do it.

– Peter O’Toole

I wouldn’t mind being a lord.

– Peter O’Toole

If I’m not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can’t write a word.

– Peter O’Toole

I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer.

– Peter O’Toole

The good parts are the people who don’t make do. They’re the interesting people. Lear doesn’t make do.

– Peter O’Toole

I can make the best French toast.

– Peter O’Toole

I’m the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.

– Peter O’Toole

Every three or four years, I’m hot again.

– Peter O’Toole

I can now tell from the envelope whether or not it is a good script.

– Peter O’Toole

My plumbing is no one’s business but my own.

– Peter O’Toole

I love working with young people which to me is a big kick.

– Peter O’Toole

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.

– Peter O’Toole

For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding.

– Peter O’Toole

I can’t stand light. I hate weather.

– Peter O’Toole

The common denominator of all my friends is that they’re dead.

– Peter O’Toole

Always a bridesmaid never a bride my foot!

– Peter O’Toole

I quite like being old.

– Peter O’Toole

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.

– Peter O’Toole

I know nothing at all about women. They are an amazing, beautiful mystery.

– Peter O’Toole

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