170 Quotes by Peter O'Toole

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.

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

My plumbing is no one's business but my own.

No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That's what acting is.

Acting has been described as farting about in disguise.

I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian.

I do not choose to be a common man…it is my right to be uncommon—if I can…I seek opportunity—not security…I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed… to refuse to barter incentive for a dole… I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence, the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopias….

I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday.

There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians.