170 Quotes by 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.

I’m not an actor, I’m a movie star!!!

I can’t stand light. I hate weather. My idea of heaven is moving from one smoke-filled room to another.

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.

Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we’re dead.

I wouldn’t mind being a lord.

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

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.

I’m a professional and I’ll do anything – a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.