urgent

"Appear as though you're late for a train."
- Peter O'Toole's acting advice

hellraiser

 

"The only exercise I get is walking behind the coffins of old mates who exercised."
- Peter O'Toole [1932-2013]

on pain

[Lawrence has just extinguished a match between his thumb and forefinger. William Potter surreptitiously attempts the same.]

William Potter: Ooh! It damn well 'urts!

T.E. Lawrence: Certainly it hurts.

Officer: What's the trick then?

T.E. Lawrence: The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.

"No one can ride a camel; it's impossible. All that you can do is find a beast whose discomfort you can tolerate."
- Omar Sharif

"80% of what an actor does is speech."
- Peter O'Toole

have you any unanswered calls inside you that you don't understand or can't qualify?

Military Intelligence

Photo of the real T.E. Lawrence.

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General Murray

I can't make out whether you're bloody bad-mannered or just half-witted.

T.E. Lawrence

I have the same problem, sir.

1962's Lawrence of Arabia.

An earlier reference to T.E. Lawrence here.

Arabian Sunrise