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
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.
People at the top of the tree are those without qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
As I grow older I find that though I think I'm saying the same things as I always did, people listen to me more.
People are annoyed with the Chinese for not respecting more human rights. But with a population that size it's very difficult to have the same attitude to human rights.
The older I get, the more people listen to me - even though I say the same as always...
People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom
I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.
It is of course, reprehensible to steal from others, but plain stupid to steal from yourself
Parents are the bone on which children sharpen their teeth
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.
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.
A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.