A biography for Peter O'Toolehasn’t been written yet.
“My plumbing is no one's business but my own.”
“The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.”
“My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.”
“If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it.”
“I put steam on the table by being an actor. That is how I live. The longer I live, the more expensive it becomes. So I do my work. And I can't be immensely picky. How many beautiful scripts come in one's lifetime? I have had more than anybody, practically.”
“No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That's what acting is.”
“Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.”
“My favorite food from my homeland is Guinness. My second choice in Guinness. My third choice - would have to be Guinness.”
“My dad went at 86. A car killed him. He was crossing the road.”
“I love working with the young.”
“I can't stand light. I hate weather.”
“Right after I left drama school, I had a job.”
“I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.”
“I'm not from the working class. I'm from the criminal class.”
“I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you.”
“I know nothing at all about women. They are an amazing, beautiful mystery.”
“My own favorite is something called Rogue Male.”
“For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding.”
“I had a pretty hilariously gloomy few years in the '70s.”
“I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.”