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
Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.
Two members of my profession who are not urgently needed by my profession, Mr. Ronald Reagan and Mr. George Murphy, entered politics, and they've done extremely well. Since there has been no reciprocal tendency in the other direction, it suggests to me that our job is still more difficult than their new one.
To live like a poor man is only fun when you are rich.
I can never forgive God for having invented the French
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.