Top 84 Quotes by Peter O'Toole

Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.

All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70.

I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.

I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday.

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

No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That's what acting is.

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

I've played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen.

Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working with Richard Burton in Beckett was another great joy.

You know when you've found a part that you want to play. You know it because the part takes you over. It sits in the script waiting for you to play him.