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
The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us
If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.
Please keep off the grass.
Unfortunately, a superabundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares
If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
I can never forgive God for having invented the French
Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
Two members of my profession who are not urgently needed by my profession, Mr. Ronald Reagan and Mr. George Murphy, entered politics, and they've done extremely well. Since there has been no reciprocal tendency in the other direction, it suggests to me that our job is still more difficult than their new one.
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.