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
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.
Parents are the bone on which children sharpen their teeth
I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.
The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.
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?
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
People at the top of the tree are those without qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
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.
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
uncontrolled photography is one of the blights of our time.
Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.
The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.