Quotes from Peter O'Toole

I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, 'He needs someone to bowl to him.'

I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer.

I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions.

I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum.

No one can take Jesus away from me.... There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.

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

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

Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.

Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church.

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

No one ever watched competitive swimming.

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.

An Oscar is a symbol that is known in every corner of the world.

I can't stand light. I hate weather.

My dad went at 86. A car killed him. He was crossing the road.

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.

If I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.

I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you.

The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead.

It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.

And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.

I've never looked for women. When I was a teenager, perhaps.