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
Irrespective of nationality, soldiers are always open to the same discomfort and to the same comradeship the world over. I'll make things easy for you if you make things easy for me. That is, after all the unwritten law of the barracks.
Life is unfair but remember sometimes it is unfair in your favour.
This is a free country, madam. We have a right to share your privacy in a public place.
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.
I think that first nights should come near the end of a play's run-as indeed, they often do.
Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.
It's wrong to flog a man. It's against his being a man.
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops.
Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.
I believe that the Jews have made a contribution to the human condition out of all proportion to their numbers: I believe them to be an immense people. Not only have they supplied the world with two leaders of the stature of Jesus Christ and Karl Marx, but they have even indulged in the luxury of following neither one nor the other.
I had started by imitating a parrot, which is unusual, in that a parrot is supposed to imitate you. By taking the initiative you allow the parrot no alternative but to be itself, which proves again that attack is often the best defence.
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.
Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?