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.
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer
Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them
The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners.
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just — his turn!
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.
Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.
Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.
To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.