170 Quotes by Peter O'Toole

I can now tell from the envelope whether or not it is a good script.

I love working with young people which to me is a big kick.

Always a bridesmaid never a bride my foot!

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

There's always a hunger, when you're young, to go from peak to peak and avoid the valleys.

We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.

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.

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.

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.