Peter O'Toole Quotes

The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long.

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

I'm one of those people who has always been a bridesmaid.

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.

Charlie Brown is almost a tragic figure.

I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.

I see people around me with very unhappy love lives, who may have held out for that perfect somebody. And the failure to achieve that brings along a lot of bitterness which is very unattractive; therefore they're probably less likely to achieve it.

I've definitely been obsessed with a couple of girls. They didn't work out.

There is so much heartbreak and letdown in this industry. You get your heart set on something, and then you're sitting by the phone for three weeks and it never rings.

I've got a lot of silvers. Second seems to be something I end up being. I don't want to be the bridesmaid forever.

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.

Some people will always be disappointed.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

I guess I'm just a frustrated cowboy.

With all the awards I've won, you'd think that I'd at least be able to make a living. It's a really terrible situation.

I trained myself to not get my hopes up, because there were so many times in the room where you'd be like, 'This feels amazing, this is a hit!' And it never saw the light of day.

Most of my childhood memories of my father are of being ignored. I was his namesake, but nothing I did ever pleased or even interested him. He enjoyed telling me I couldn't do anything right.

Chimere's not mine. That hurt 'cause I had attached myself to this guy, you know. This is my son. I'm looking at him, and I'm picturing I'm gonna be old, and he's gonna be - this is my son! It's not my son.

The indie movie world is like a bad Tinder date, and there are always strings attached.

You never forget the feeling of not getting to the World Series. Yes, it sticks with you.

I just have to accept that I won't ever be Al Green, which is a hard pill to swallow.