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
To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.
Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.
Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.
The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer
The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only one day, of modern warfare.
At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
And here is the lesson I learned in the army. If you want to do a thing badly, you have to work at it as though you want to do it well.
We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.
Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.
That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.