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In an interview with National Public Radio in December 2006, O ' Toole revealed that he knows all 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets.

A self-described romantic, O ' Toole regards the sonnets as among the finest collection of English poems, reading them daily.

In the film Venus, he recites Sonnet 18, " Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day.

" O ' Toole has written two memoirs.

Loitering With Intent: The Child chronicles his childhood in the years leading up to World War II and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1992.

His second, Loitering With Intent: The Apprentice, is about his years spent training with a cadre of friends at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

The books have been praised by critics such as Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times, who wrote: " A cascade of language, a rumbling tumbling riot of words, a pub soliloquy to an invisible but imaginable audience, and the more captivating for it.

O ' Toole as raconteur is grand company.

" O ' Toole spent parts of 2007 writing his third installment.

This book will have ( as he described it ) " the meat ," meaning highlights from his stage and filmmaking career.