170 Quotes by Peter O'Toole

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.

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.

I have no memories I’m prepared to share with you.

There’s a remedy for everything except death.

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

If I’m not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can’t write a word.

It’s my job, it’s what I do, it’s what I’m on earth to do and it’s who I am.

The only thing I’ve ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.

A victory? What have we won? We’ve won a rock in the middle of a wasteland, on the shores of a poisoned sea.