Peter O'Toole movie quotes

- Alan Swann: Comedy is such a mystery to me. I feel the way Edmund Kean did.
- Benjy Stone: The great English actor?
- Alan Swann: On his death bed, Kean was asked how he felt. He answered, "Dying is easy. Comedy is hard".
Peter O'Toole - Alan Swann
Mark Linn-Baker - Benjy Stone

“After reading a lot of overheated puffery about your new cook, you know what I'm craving? A little perspective. That's it. I'd like some fresh, clear, well seasoned perspective. Can you suggest a good wine to go with that?”

Peter O'Toole - Anton Ego

“- Achilles: You're still my enemy in the morning.
- Priam: You're still my enemy tonight. But even enemies can show respect.”
Brad Pitt - Achilles
Peter O'Toole - Priam

“- Lord Chelmsford: For a savage, as for a child, chastisement is sometimes a kindness.
- Sir Henry Bartle Frere: Let us hope, General, that this will be the final solution to the Zulu problem.”
Peter O'Toole - Lord Chelmsford
John Mills - Sir Henry Bartle Frere

- Eli Cross: We need something, Sam, and damn well you know it. Something better.
- Sam: Better? How better?
- Eli Cross: Something less boring. Something crazier.
- Sam: A dead man's boots are dropped over his own airfield out of chivalry. That's not crazy enough for you, huh?
- Eli Cross: They did it in a film called "Wings". Even the dummy... (continue)(continue reading)
Peter O'Toole - Eli Cross
Allen Garfield - Sam

“- Supergirl: Earth, Zaltar. A tree, a horse. You keep making things from Earth.
- Zaltar: The place intrigues me.
- Supergirl: Then let's go there.
- Zaltar: Certainly. When is the next train?
- Supergirl: What is a train?”
Helen Slater - Supergirl
Peter O'Toole - Zaltar

“- Sam: Eli, do you know that when I read the insane asylum scene to my family... do you know that my oldest son shook my hand for the first time in his whole life? So why is it, Eli, why is it that your vulgar little scene turns out to be so much more moving? So much more impassioned?
- Eli Cross: Ah, I don't know, Sam. Possibly because we...” (continue)(continue reading)

Allen Garfield - Sam
Peter O'Toole - Eli Cross

“I loved my boy from the moment he opened his eyes until the moment you closed them.”

Peter O'Toole - Priam

“- Cameron: That was the hardest thousand dollars I ever earned.
- Eli Cross: Thousand dollars? What thousand dollars?”
Steve Railsback - Cameron
Peter O'Toole - Eli Cross

Sir, once again I must remind you that my first name is not "dick". Nor is my surname "face". It is simply "Peter". "Peter Plunkett"... No, I was not given a middle name but I'm sure if I had, my mother would not have chosen "shit-for-brains peckerhead"... Well then clearly you know a side to my mother that I have been happily sheltered from.... (continue)(continue reading)

Peter O'Toole - Peter Plunkett

“- Cameron: If you want to get home for Thanksgiving, you better figure the guy coming at you is trying to kill you. Learned that from the gooks.
- Eli Cross: Gooks? That has a nostalgic ring. You really did call them gooks? I thought that was just Time Magazine.”
Steve Railsback - Cameron
Peter O'Toole - Eli Cross

“I have endured what no one on earth has endured before. I kissed the hands of the man who killed my son.”
Peter O'Toole - Priam

“Oh, God. I don't believe it's breathing. There are some days in which I can't do one thing right. I hope this doesn't fuck up our relationship, you being alive and all.”

Peter O'Toole - Eli Cross

- Eli Cross: The scene's wrong. That's what's wrong.
- Sam: The scene plays like a dream. Plays like "Marat/Sade".
- Eli Cross: It was shit.
- Sam: Shit? Shit, huh? Who was that that called me on the phone when he first read it, woke me up in the middle of the goddamn night, raving about the magical madhouse scene? Who was that? My upstairs maid... (continue)(continue reading)
Peter O'Toole - Eli Cross
Allen Garfield - Sam

“Burt, stop this worrying. You must have heard surely of movie magic. You should be a stunt man, who is an actor, who is a character in a movie, who is an enemy soldier. Who'll look for you amongst all those? People like to believe in things, and policemen are just people. Or so I'm told. Frankly, our problem is so simple it's almost beneath us....” (continue)(continue reading)
Peter O'Toole - Eli Cross

“- Eli Cross: How tall is King Kong?
- Cameron: Three foot six, and that's what you're gonna be if you don't pay my thousand dollars!”
Peter O'Toole - Eli Cross
Steve Railsback - Cameron

“- Sheriff Bryce Hammond: Enough! It's not a god, it's not a devil. It's just a fucking animal, and any living thing can be killed.
- Dr. Timothy Flyte: But this thing is what wiped out the dinosaurs! Which were pretty tough fucking customers!”
Ben Affleck - Sheriff Bryce Hammond
Peter O'Toole - Dr. Timothy Flyte

“- Gen. Leland Copperfield: Just what is this thing?
- Dr. Timothy Flyte: Chaos. Chaos in the flesh.”

Clifton Powell - Gen. Leland Copperfield
Peter O'Toole - Dr. Timothy Flyte

“- Cameron: Why are you trying to save my ass?
- Eli Cross: Because you're almost as crazy as the young man I'm making this film about. Besides, I've fallen madly in love with the dark side of your nature.”
Steve Railsback - Cameron
Peter O'Toole - Eli Cross

“If not to Heaven, then hand in hand to Hell!”
Peter O'Toole - Pantaloon

“- Benjy Stone: Why did you marry so many of them?
- Alan Swann: Stone, I didn't marry any of them. They married me.”
Mark Linn-Baker - Benjy Stone
Peter O'Toole - Alan Swann

“- President Paul von Hindenburg: If I appoint you Chancellor, how will I answer to God?
- Adolf Hitler: How will you answer to Germany if you don't?”
Peter O'Toole - President Paul von Hindenburg
Robert Carlyle - Adolf Hitler

“- Alan Swann: You see, people like me wear targets. I'm blamed for a lot of things I had absolutely nothing to do with. On the other hand, because of who I am, I get away with murder in other areas. I suppose it all balances out in the end.
- Belle Carroca: Does it really, Swannee?
- Benjy Stone: Ma, he's an actor, not a river.”
Peter O'Toole - Alan Swann
Lainie Kazan - Belle Carroca
Mark Linn-Baker - Benjy Stone

“- Governor Anthony Cloyden Hayes: My dear young lady, unlike you, I have not spent my life cruising from discotheque to discotheque with my ass hanging out of a french cut bathing suit.
- Phillipa Lloyd: You're missing all the fun, aren't you?
- Governor Anthony Cloyden Hayes: I suspect you're right.”
Peter O'Toole - Governor Anthony Cloyden Hayes
Twiggy - Phillipa Lloyd

“- Alan Swann: Stone... I'm afraid. I'm afraid. That's why I couldn't get out of the car to see my Tess, my child.
- Benjy Stone: Alan Swann, afraid? The Defender of the Crown? Captain from Tortuga? The Last Knight of the Round Table?
- Alan Swann: Those are movies, damn you! Look at me! I'm flesh and blood, life-size, no larger! I'm not that...” (continue)(continue reading)
Peter O'Toole - Alan Swann
Mark Linn-Baker - Benjy Stone