Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov, CBE, was a British actor, writer and dramatist.He was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre and opera director, director, stage designer, screenwriter, comedian, humorist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television presenter.
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Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.
Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.
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.
If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
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.
At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals.
Only some of us never grow out of it.
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.
People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
Sex is a conversation carried out by other means.
If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.
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.
I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops.
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous if it masks an empty head.
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done.
Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.
By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.
