Top 84 Quotes by Peter O'Toole

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

I'm not from the working class. I'm from the criminal class.

The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do.

I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.

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.

When I'm doing theatre, I prefer to be doing cinema. When I'm doing cinema, I prefer to be doing theatre.

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

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

I take whatever good part comes along.

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.