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
Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique
There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts.
Sometimes I wish I could just fall in love. Then, at least you know who your opponent is.
The older I get, the more people listen to me - even though I say the same as always...
I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.
I'm Rally of Unionist Separist Extremes, sometimes known as the R.U.S.E. … It's the party at present in power.
A twinge of conscience is a glimpse of God.
American democracy is the inalienable right to sit on your front porch, in your pyjamas, drinking a can of beer and shouting out 'Where else is this possible?' Which doesn't seem to me to be freedom, really.
In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done.
I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before. After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn.
I don't know why I have these dreams. I've never wanted to be Pope. In fact, I have a greater affinity to Martin Luther.
Generals are fascinating cases of arrested development - after all, at five all of us wanted to be generals.
Robert Vavra is one of these artists, part magician, part alchemist, who is able to create a series of photographs in unforgettable compositions. Only visible are the dunes, the blinding fields of flowers and the vast sky, the epic intimacy of Robert Vavra's vision.
And here is the lesson I learned in the army. If you want to do a thing badly, you have to work at it as though you want to do it well.