Peter Ustinov Quotes - Page 4

I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.

I don't know why I have these dreams. I've never wanted to be Pope. In fact, I have a greater affinity to Martin Luther.

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.

I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins.

Sex is a conversation carried out by another means.

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

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.

Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.

It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.

Robert Vavra is one of these artists, part magician, part alchemist, who is able to create a series of photographs in unforgettable compositions. Only visible are the dunes, the blinding fields of flowers and the vast sky, the epic intimacy of Robert Vavra's vision.

Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.

I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.

People are annoyed with the Chinese for not respecting more human rights. But with a population that size it's very difficult to have the same attitude to human rights.

I hate being moved. I hate that man who came in. So self-righteous, so cruel. He made fun of me, that's why I cried. You never did that. You led me into temptation by your - politeness.

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

I'm Rally of Unionist Separist Extremes, sometimes known as the R.U.S.E. … It's the party at present in power.

It's wrong to flog a man. It's against his being a man.

I think that first nights should come near the end of a play's run-as indeed, they often do.

There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts.

Please keep off the grass.

A twinge of conscience is a glimpse of God.

All the hideously calculated hypocrisy of men when they commit a murder in the name of justice. Then it's the time of death on a grander scale, the hour of the great offenses ... fix your bayonets boys ...gentlemen, synchronize your watches ... in ten seconds time the barrage starts ... a thousand men are destined to die in order to capture a farmhouse no one has lived in for years...

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter.

I am an international citizen conceived in Russia, born in England, working in Hollywood, living in Switzerland, and touring the World.

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.