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
Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act. – Peter O’Toole
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
We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure. – Peter O’Toole
No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That’s what acting is. – Peter O’Toole
I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren’t bad things on which to ponder a few notions. – Peter O’Toole
I’ve played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen. – Peter O’Toole
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
I put steam on the table by being an actor. That is how I live. The longer I live, the more expensive it becomes. So I do my work. And I can’t be immensely picky. How many beautiful scripts come in one’s lifetime? I have had more than anybody, practically. – Peter O’Toole
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. – Peter O’Toole
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. – Peter O’Toole
People talk about the ’60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the ’50s had begun. – Peter O’Toole