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
Laughter... the most civilized music in the world.
I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
I am an international citizen conceived in Russia, born in England, working in Hollywood, living in Switzerland, and touring the World.
British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.
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.
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.
The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.
Parents are the bone on which children sharpen their teeth