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
Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox - affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
Sex is a conversation carried out by another means.
It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.
Sometimes I wish I could just fall in love. Then, at least you know who your opponent is.
Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
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.
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.
Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.