Peter O'Toole Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• 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

  Emotional, People, Support

  "Peter O'Toole announces retirement" by Adam B. Vary, www.cnn.com. July 10, 2012.

• We all had such larks. Yes, it was hard work but the friendships and the genuine respect we had for one another, that side I shall miss greatly. 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

  Hard Work, Thinking, Voice

• Acting has been described as farting about in disguise.

  Peter O'Toole

  Acting, Disguise, Has Beens

• I can't tell you about acting. You can develop all the skills, voice, gesture, movement, you can develop by exercise and practice but finally fundamentally it's mining from yourself, from your own personality, from what you know. If you can't know it you can have a good guess by people you know or books you've read.

  Peter O'Toole

  Book, Exercise, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Peter O'Toole

  Art, Philosophy, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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