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
People at the top of the tree are those without qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just — his turn!
Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.
The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
I am an international citizen conceived in Russia, born in England, working in Hollywood, living in Switzerland, and touring the World.
A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
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.
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.