Quotes from Peter O'Toole

I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star.

I know nothing at all about women. They are an amazing, beautiful mystery.

It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.

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

I've stopped acting, but I don't think I've finished using my voice. I could, and probably will, record the whole of Shakespeare's sonnets. They live at the side of my bed and are my constant companions.

It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.

I have my very own Oscar now to be with me until death us do part.

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.

A few years back I was asked if I would go and meet a director and his various acolytes, and it occurred to me halfway through the meeting that what I was doing was auditioning. And I thought, 'Well, hang on buddy. I've done half a century of this.'

If I'm not at my study by 10:00, 10:30, forget it, I can't write a word.

Right after I left drama school, I had a job.

I never found it easy to learn my lines. It was slog, slog, slog.

I wouldn't mind being a lord.

Being sober for so many years is getting interesting.