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1. "I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes." ~ Peter O'Toole
2. "When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself." ~ Peter O'Toole
3. "I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony." ~ Peter O'Toole
4. "The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise." ~ Peter O'Toole
5. "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
6. "For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding." ~ Peter O'Toole
7. "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
8. "No one can take Jesus away from me." ~ Peter O'Toole
9. "I am human, all too bloody human." ~ Peter O'Toole
10. "The script sits in front of you. The writer's translated into ink what is in his spirit and his soul and his mind. Bum. [Thumps table.] I come along, I pick it up, and the ink goes into my eyes, into my mind, into my body, flows around and that part starts to inhabit me. And I know a good part when I see one." ~ Peter O'Toole
11. "Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act." ~ Peter O'Toole
12. "Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world." ~ Peter O'Toole
13. "The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead." ~ Peter O'Toole
14. "I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone." ~ Peter O'Toole
15. "I can make the best French toast." ~ Peter O'Toole
16. "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
17. "I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you." ~ Peter O'Toole
18. "It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back." ~ Peter O'Toole
19. "There is a legend. And to protest is daft." ~ Peter O'Toole
20. "I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV." ~ Peter O'Toole
21. "My own favorite is something called Rogue Male." ~ Peter O'Toole
22. "I can't stand light. I hate weather." ~ Peter O'Toole
23. "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." ~ Peter O'Toole
24. "I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer." ~ Peter O'Toole
25. "If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word." ~ Peter O'Toole
26. "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
27. "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
28. "if I was to be an actor, I would love to be like peter o'toole." ~ Peter O'Toole
29. "Do.As.Thou.Wilt." ~ Peter O'Toole
30. "I once knew a fellow who committed robbery with violence, and he was sentenced to a long prison stretch and 12 strokes of the cat. He'd been injured during the robbery, so they put him in hospital to make him better so that they could make him worse. During the administration of the cat, he fainted after six strokes, and the doctor put him in hospital again. And he got very friendly with the nurses and the doctors, and after a while they got him well enough to go back and take the next six strokes. I saw him afterward and I said: "Oh, Jesus—that bloody law, that bloody judge!" But he said: "I don't want the fellow who made the law, and I don't want the fellow who passed the sentence. All I want is the fellow who held the bloody whip." ~ Peter O'Toole
31. "My life is littered with copies of Moby Dick." ~ Peter O'Toole

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