Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov, CBE FRSAwas an English actor, writer, and dramatist. He was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre and opera director, stage designer, author, screenwriter, comedian, humorist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster, and television presenter. A noted wit and raconteur, he was a fixture on television talk shows and lecture circuits for much of his career. He was also a respected intellectual and diplomat, who in addition to his various academic posts, served as a Goodwill Ambassador...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth16 April 1921
Peter Ustinov quotes about
Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.
A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
Sex is a conversation carried out by another means.
There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts.
If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.
Please keep off the grass.
Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
The great thing about history is that it is adaptable.
Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
I'm Rally of Unionist Separist Extremes, sometimes known as the R.U.S.E. … It's the party at present in power.