Peter Ustinov Quotes

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Peter Ustinov

Profession : Actor

Birth : April 16, 1921

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.

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Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

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The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.

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

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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.

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I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.

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Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.

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Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

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At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

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I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

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Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

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Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.

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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.

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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.

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