Peter O'Toole Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: August 2, 1932 - December 14, 2013

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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

Max Beerbohm

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I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.

Matthew Rhys

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My first break was in my home country with some pop songs that became hits, writing for French singers Christophe & Francoise Hardy, which became hits.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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My own child doesn't even know that Stephanie is my name.

Stormy Daniels

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I think, in real life, when we're facing death - that is, when we come out on the other side of it, whether it's death of a friend or a family member - you come out on the other side of the mourning cherishing your life that much more.

Tony DiTerlizzi

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Liberals instinctively cling to racism or bigotry or hate or narrow-mindedness whenever they can.

Mike Gallagher

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I'm sort of known in the comedy community as 'Smooth Sailing,' just 'cause everything always goes great. I've always had success at every turn.

Jon Glaser

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Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.

Doris Lessing

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We may be more sophisticated in how we hide it, but there are still so many phobias in this world, whether it's Islamophobia, xenophobia or homophobia. I've been trying to do things that expose and help teach and draw attention to all of the 'isms' and how we do or don't deal with them in our world.

Bonnie Hammer

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Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.

Astro Teller

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I'm so happy when someone does something original, and there's no focus group or planning committee. If the cinema doesn't get an injection of that once in a while, we're in trouble.

Pawel Pawlikowski

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