Latest Peter O'Toole Quotes from Interviews

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• 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

• People're artists they're doing something, taking a hunk of chaps, giving it some order, some form, and presenting it saying here is my little song and dance, my chaos.

  Peter O'Toole

  Song, Artist, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• If man ever comes to perfect equilibrium with the environment, we'll all be redundant, perhaps because you won't need art or letters.

  Peter O'Toole

  Art, Men, Perfect

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There are only two things one has to bear in mind. One has to be credulous - able to believe - and skeptical - able to not believe, because if you are not skeptical, you will believe rubbish. If you are not credulous you will learn nothing and the only way to balance those two is to recognize the mystery of things.

  Peter O'Toole

  Believe, Mind, Balance

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The moment you start dividing thought and feeling, the ratio of sinitive from the intuitive, you're dead. There is no difference between emotion and thought. You can be unreasonable.

  Peter O'Toole

  Feelings, Emotion, Moments

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• You talk about auteur de cinema having things in their heads and putting them all across, can you imagine Shakespeare writing screenplays?

  Peter O'Toole

  Writing, Imagine

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Most difficult thing in the world, to write a play. Do you know the story of Shaw at the Fabian society? H.G. Welles said "I'm terribly sorry I've missed the last five meetings, I've been terribly busy, I'm engaged in writing a scientific pamphlet on the effects of radioactivity in 1984 and I've produced a novel, and various pieces of science fiction to do, and I've had a bit of personal trouble, and I had my copy to bring out for the newspaper." Shaw leapt up and said, "I've not missed one meeting, and I have written a play!" hardest thing in the world. If it were easy they'd all be at it.

  Peter O'Toole

  Sorry, Writing, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

• In the theater you can chain a blue-assed baboon in the stalls and with a good script, good actors, and a good set you'd have what is called a production. With the cinema someone has to know about lenses and fine things. I have no time for the "auteur de cinema." To me, it's meaningless.

  Peter O'Toole

  Meaningless

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com