170 Quotes by Peter O'Toole

Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.

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.

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.

Booze is the most outrageous of drugs which is why I chose it.

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!

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

And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

There's a remedy for everything except death.

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.