Peter O'Toole Quotes - Page 4

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• There is a legend. And to protest is daft.

  Peter O'Toole

  Legends, Protest, Daft

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• I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum.

  Peter O'Toole

  Morning, Queens, Sunset

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• I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.

  Peter O'Toole

  Children, Theatre, Cinema

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• I don't go for this auto-cannibalism. Very damaging.

  Peter O'Toole

  Psychology, Cannibalism

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• 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.

  Peter O'Toole

  Heart, Gone, Film

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

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• 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

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• It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.

  Peter O'Toole

  Book, Thinking, Years

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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.

  Peter O'Toole

  Travel, Military, Nine

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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.

  Peter O'Toole

  Teacher, Son, Years

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• Always a bridesmaid never a bride my foot!

  Peter O'Toole

  Feet, Bridesmaids, Brides

  "Peter O'Toole, star of Lawrence of Arabia, dies aged 81" by Robert Booth, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2013.

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• Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and I'm having as an actor. I didn't expect the rest.

  Peter O'Toole

  Good Life, Afterlife, Long

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• Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church.

  Peter O'Toole

  Church, Thieves, Pope

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• Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.

  Peter O'Toole

  Art, Writing, Mean

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• I can make the best French toast.

  Peter O'Toole

  French Toast, Toasts, I Can

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