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.
Please keep off the grass.
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
Life is unfair but remember sometimes it is unfair in your favour.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
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
The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.
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.
Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.
uncontrolled photography is one of the blights of our time.
As for being a General, well, at the age of four with paper hates and wooden swords, we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
People at the top of the tree are those without qualifications to detain them at the bottom.