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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. ↗

— Peter O'Toole

#carrying #greatest #heads #home #husbands

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. ↗

— Peter O'Toole

#chuck #come #films #gone #heart

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. ↗

— Peter O'Toole

#book #buried #chapter #christ #every

My own favorite is something called Rogue Male. ↗

— Peter O'Toole

#favorite #male #my own #own #rogue

My professional acting life, stage and screen, has brought me public support, emotional fulfillment and material comfort. It has brought me together with fine people, good companions with whom I've shared the inevitable lot of all actors: flops and hits. ↗

— Peter O'Toole

#brought #comfort #companions #emotional #fine

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

— Peter O'Toole

#common denominator #dead #denominator #friends

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

— Peter O'Toole

#good parts #interesting #interesting people #lear #make

The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise. ↗

— Peter O'Toole

#exercise #friends #i #only #take

There is a legend. And to protest is daft. ↗

— Peter O'Toole

#legend #protest

We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure. ↗

— Peter O'Toole

#beginning #circumstances #david #day #doing