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
constant finished record side stopped using
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.
spent
Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.
four
Every three or four years, I'm hot again.
corner known oscar symbol
An Oscar is a symbol that is known in every corner of the world.
Right after I left drama school, I had a job.
car crossing dad
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.
It's a razor's edge, a romance with an old man and a young woman.
script
You know when you've found a part that you want to play. You know it because the part takes you over. It sits in the script waiting for you to play him.
business cut decision given hands lighting men trained
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.
rest three
There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.
mass people
People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.
played sort
I've played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen.