170 Quotes by Peter O'Toole

I’m a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.

Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can’t sit down to write unless I’m dressed. I don’t mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.

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!

Marriage is forever. It’s like cement.

I did quite enjoy the days when one went for a beer at one’s local in Paris and woke up in Corsica.

Question: How do you know you’re God? Answer: Simple. When I pray to him, I find I’m talking to myself.

He’s a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once.

One time in the late ’50s, when Peter Finch, Laurence Harvey, and I were all offered the same movie role – the assumption being that we weren’t friends – we marched up to producer Dino De Laurentiis’s door and declared in unison, ‘We don’t think we’re suitable for the part.’

It’s very inconvenient because every time I finish, let’s say, a chapter of a book, I think I’m going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I’ve buried him. I buried him last year.