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Actors have given up their clout. Now decision making is in the hands of lighting men, designers, bankers, special-effects people. We need to cut that out and just go with the most able trained actors in the business.

~Peter O'Toole

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Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.

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

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

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No one ever watched competitive swimming.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.'

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

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Actor

Born: August 2nd, 1932

Died: December 14th, 2013

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