Peter O'Toole Quotes

Peter Seamus O'Toole was a British stage and film actor of Irish descent. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and began working in the theatre, gaining recognition as a Shakespearean actor at the Bristol Old Vic and with the English Stage Company. ...more

Birth: August 02, 1932 - Death: December 14, 2013

Booze is the most outrageous of drugs which is why I chose it.

When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.

Topic(s): Wells , Realizing , Religious

If you do not surrender, I shall be forced to shoot you through the head with a rather large bullet.

Topic(s): Ifs , Surrender , Bullets

I’m not an actor, I’m a movie star!!!

Topic(s): Actors , Stars , Movie Star

There is a legend. And to protest is daft.

Topic(s): Protest , Legends , Daft

My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.

Topic(s): Dear

When I work with young people, I grab energy from them by the handsful.

Topic(s): People , Energy , Young

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.

Topic(s): Heart , Film , Gone

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.