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
I believe that the Jews have made a contribution to the human condition out of all proportion to their numbers: I believe them to be an immense people. Not only have they supplied the world with two leaders of the stature of Jesus Christ and Karl Marx, but they have even indulged in the luxury of following neither one nor the other.
I had started by imitating a parrot, which is unusual, in that a parrot is supposed to imitate you. By taking the initiative you allow the parrot no alternative but to be itself, which proves again that attack is often the best defence.
The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?
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.
People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom
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.