Your Quote of the Day

“If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.”
― Grace Metalious

"He is the very stereotype of a ham actor."
-- Omar Sharif on Peter O'Toole

Omar is correct. I blame it on his role in What's New Pussycat. But O'Toole can be pretty entertaining.

Peter O'Toole gave a great performance in "My Favorite Year."

Richard Harris used to tell a story about when he and O' Toole were in the West End together. They play was on, but they didn't appear until the second act, so they were drinking in a nearby pub. Suddenly they realised that they were due on, they ran down the road frantically. O' Toole with his long legs started to pull out in front, but Harris was on first.

They just made it with no time to spare, Harris ran to the stage cutain, but slipped, and slid on his stomach all the way across the stage and stopped, eyeball to eyeball with someone in the front row. He smelled Harris' breath and exclaimed.
'My God, Harris is drunk.' To which Harris replied, 'If you think I'm drunk, wait until you see O' Toole.'

Great story.

The interview may be available on youtube somewhere I saw it on the BBC many years ago. Harris tells it brilliantly, a lot better than I just did.

"Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home."

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

Sammy Davis Jr.

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."
- Thomas Henry Huxley

When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.
Peter O'Toole

"A bookmark is as effective as a quote to get a body into the Your Quote of the Day thread."

- jtt

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

Norman Vincent Peale

Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.

Lee Atwater, voice of the GOP,
on his deathbed. An oblique
apology(?) to Dukakis.

“Tweet is for losers. And what I mean by that, if you wake up in the morning and you’re worried about what I’m doing, you a damn idiot. You are a damn idiot. I don’t feel the need to put every thought that comes in my head out to the world. I don’t feel that. And I hope nobody wakes up in the morning and says let me follow Charles Barkley for the day.”
Charles Barkley

If that true, BBB, then how come my pants always get hung up on the barbwire?

You must get yourself some suspenders, poor fencer.

BBB

The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.

Oliver Wendell Homes

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Hubert H. Humphrey

To maken vertue of necessite.

~Geoffrey Chaucer
Canterbury Tales