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
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Actors have given up their clout. Now decision making is in the hands of lighting men, designers, bankers, special-effects people. We need to cut that out and just go with the most able trained actors in the business.
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Do you not know that King Kong the first was just three foot six inches tall? He only came up to Faye Wray's belly button! If God could do the tricks that we can do he'd be a happy man!
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I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.
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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.
men common sand
I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.
men ordinary ordinary-man
I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.
dream opportunity men
I do not choose to be a common man…it is my right to be uncommon—if I can…I seek opportunity—not security…I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed… to refuse to barter incentive for a dole… I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopias….
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Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.
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Every three or four years, I'm hot again.
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An Oscar is a symbol that is known in every corner of the world.
Right after I left drama school, I had a job.
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My dad went at 86. A car killed him. He was crossing the road.
I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer.
death
I have my very own Oscar now to be with me until death us do part.