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
french-toast i-can toasts
I can make the best French toast.
hate weather light
I can't stand light. I hate weather.
flattery
What I like is bottomless flattery.
joy beckett highlights
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.
morning queens sunset
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.
emotional people support
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.
book thinking years
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.
people energy young
When I work with young people, I grab energy from them by the handsful.
teaching life-is cricket
The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.
dear
My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.
forever cement
Marriage is forever. It's like cement.
men looks lines
I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theater—because at first glance I could see through him and he could see through me, and he knew that I knew that he knew. Look, love, I've been bullied all my life by bigger experts than Larry Olivier, I can assure you, and he's just got to get in line.
children theatre cinema
I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.
littles
Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.