79+ Peter O'Toole Quotes On Charismatic, Iconic And Versatile

Peter O'Toole was an Irish actor best known for his role as Lawrence of Arabia in the 1962 epic film. He was nominated for eight Academy Awards, and won a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003. He was also known for his roles in films such as The Lion in Winter, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and My Favorite Year. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Peter O'Toole on love, life, leadership.

Top 10 Peter O'Toole Quotes

1. I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.
2. We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.
3. It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.
4. When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.
5. I have no intention of uttering my last words on the stage. Room service and a couple of depraved young women will do me quite nicely for an exit.
6. There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians.
7. Question: How do you know you're God? Answer: Simple. When I pray to him, I find I'm talking to myself.
8. I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.
9. It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.
10. A victory? What have we won? We've won a rock in the middle of a wasteland, on the shores of a poisoned sea.

Peter O'Toole Short Quotes

• George Eliot is my only steady girlfriend. We go to bed together every night.
• Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.
• I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.
• I don't go for this auto-cannibalism. Very damaging.
• I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!!!
• There is a legend. And to protest is daft.
• The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead.
• I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you.
• He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once.
• I can make the best French toast.

Peter O'Toole Quotes About Love

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. — Peter O'Toole

I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums. — Peter O'Toole

I love working with young people which to me is a big kick. — Peter O'Toole

Peter O'Toole Quotes About Life

And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. — Peter O'Toole

Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act. — Peter O'Toole

Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and I'm having as an actor. I didn't expect the rest. — Peter O'Toole

For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding. — Peter O'Toole

My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life. — Peter O'Toole

Peter O'Toole Quotes About Working

It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect. — Peter O'Toole

I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else. — Peter O'Toole

I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes. — Peter O'Toole

Peter O'Toole Quotes About Year

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

Being sober for so many years is getting interesting. — Peter O'Toole

I became a professional cricket teacher about 20 years ago. I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, he needs someone to bowl to him. — Peter O'Toole

Peter O'Toole Famous Quotes And Sayings

Everyone praises Sachin Tendulkar. He may be a genius in his own right but in my book, Rahul Dravid is the artist. Dravid's defence tactics, his strokes, his cuts, his grace are truly amazing. I'd like to meet the chap sometime and take my hat off to him. — Peter O'Toole

I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act. — 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

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! — Peter O'Toole

It was a mistake and I made the mistake because I was conservative and played safe. And that way lies failure." "Must do it... constantly go to the well... constantly try, try, try. Dare. Dare, Dare. Who dares wins. — Peter O'Toole

People're artists they're doing something, taking a hunk of chaps, giving it some order, some form, and presenting it saying here is my little song and dance, my chaos. — Peter O'Toole

If man ever comes to perfect equilibrium with the environment, we'll all be redundant, perhaps because you won't need art or letters. — Peter O'Toole

The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do. — 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

It was around 1985 before I heard the news of President Kennedy's assassination. — Peter O'Toole

I can't tell you about acting. You can develop all the skills, voice, gesture, movement, you can develop by exercise and practice but finally fundamentally it's mining from yourself, from your own personality, from what you know. If you can't know it you can have a good guess by people you know or books you've read. — Peter O'Toole

Marriage is forever. It's like cement. — 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

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. — Peter O'Toole

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.' — Peter O'Toole

Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church. — Peter O'Toole

I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity. — Peter O'Toole

We all had such larks. Yes, it was hard work but the friendships and the genuine respect we had for one another, that side I shall miss greatly. 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. — Peter O'Toole

If you do not surrender, I shall be forced to shoot you through the head with a rather large bullet. — Peter O'Toole

Anything an artist does is to show ourselves as we really are, which is a complex thing. I don't think that one work of Philosophy or Art, or Letters, or Acting, or Middle Playing, or Tightrope Walking, or Flea Circuses has made mankind better, if by better you mean kinder, wiser, more tolerant of each other. One thing self knowledge. Knoticayton: know thyself. — Peter O'Toole

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…. — Peter O'Toole

If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says. — Peter O'Toole

When my father would come home from the track after a good day, the whole room would light up; it was fairyland. But when he lost, it was black. In our house, it was always either a wake ... or a wedding. — Peter O'Toole

If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it. If you give up drinking, don't go moaning about it; go back on the bottle. Do. As. Thou. Wilt. — Peter O'Toole

It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am. — Peter O'Toole

In the theater you can chain a blue-assed baboon in the stalls and with a good script, good actors, and a good set you'd have what is called a production. With the cinema someone has to know about lenses and fine things. I have no time for the "auteur de cinema." To me, it's meaningless. — Peter O'Toole

What I like is bottomless flattery. — Peter O'Toole

There's a remedy for everything except death. — Peter O'Toole

If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it. — Peter O'Toole

I did quite enjoy the days when one went for a beer at one's local in Paris and woke up in Corsica. — Peter O'Toole

I can't stand light. I hate weather. — Peter O'Toole

Booze is the most outrageous of drugs which is why I chose it. — Peter O'Toole

Always a bridesmaid never a bride my foot! — Peter O'Toole

I can't stand light. I hate weather. My idea of heaven is moving from one smoke-filled room to another. — Peter O'Toole

There are only two things one has to bear in mind. One has to be credulous - able to believe - and skeptical - able to not believe, because if you are not skeptical, you will believe rubbish. If you are not credulous you will learn nothing and the only way to balance those two is to recognize the mystery of things. — Peter O'Toole

Many years ago I sent an old, beloved jacket to a cleaner, the Sycamore Cleaners. It was a leather jacket covered in Guinness and blood and marmalade, one of those jobs... and it came back with a little note pinned to it, and on the note it said, 'It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.' So that will do for me. That can go on my tombstone. — Peter O'Toole

I wouldn't mind being a lord. — Peter O'Toole

You talk about auteur de cinema having things in their heads and putting them all across, can you imagine Shakespeare writing screenplays? — Peter O'Toole

I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer. — Peter O'Toole

I am human, all too bloody human. — Peter O'Toole

If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word. — Peter O'Toole

The moment you start dividing thought and feeling, the ratio of sinitive from the intuitive, you're dead. There is no difference between emotion and thought. You can be unreasonable. — Peter O'Toole

I'm a very physical actor. I use everything - toes, teeth, ears, everything. I don't simply mean physical in the sense of movement and vigour. I find myself remembering the shape of a scene by how I'm standing, what I'm doing. — Peter O'Toole

Acting has been described as farting about in disguise. — Peter O'Toole

My own favorite is something called Rogue Male. — Peter O'Toole

Life Lessons by Peter O'Toole

1. Peter OToole's career is a testament to the power of hard work and dedication; he worked tirelessly to become one of the most respected and beloved actors of all time.
2. He also showed that no matter how much success you achieve, it's important to stay humble and remain true to yourself.
3. Finally, his work demonstrated the importance of taking risks and pushing yourself to try new things, even if they seem intimidating at first.