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
people interesting lear
The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.
bloody humans
I am human, all too bloody human.
heart gone film
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.
girlfriend night together
George Eliot is my only steady girlfriend. We go to bed together every night.
elderly brad scoundrels
He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once.
jesus historical doubt
No one can take Jesus away from me.... There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.
thinking doors roles
One time in the late '50s, when Peter Finch, Laurence Harvey, and I were all offered the same movie role - the assumption being that we weren't friends - we marched up to producer Dino De Laurentiis's door and declared in unison, 'We don't think we're suitable for the part.'
years interesting sober
Being sober for so many years is getting interesting.
common lowest-common-denominator common-denominator
The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead.
jobs who-i-am earth
It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.
mind lord
I wouldn't mind being a lord.
rogues males my-own
My own favorite is something called Rogue Male.
psychology cannibalism
I don't go for this auto-cannibalism. Very damaging.
work grieving perfect
It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.