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Peter Ustinov

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About Peter Ustinov

Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov was a British actor, writer and humanitarian. An internationally known raconteur, he was a fixture on television talk shows and lecture circuits for much of his career. Ustinov received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Silver Bear, a Laurel Award, a Photoplay Award and a Grammy Award, as well as nominations for three BAFTAs, two Tony Awards, two Laurence Olivier Awards and a Gemini Award. In 1992, U…

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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.

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I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
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.
At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.