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Peter Ustinov Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: english
Birth: April 16, 1921 - March 28, 2004

Topics

Today Door Doing Size Danger Away

I used to sort of consider myself a feminist, an environmentalist, and I still have some of that in me, but I've done so many offensive comedies, I'm now worn down to a little nub of... nub of an activist.

Myself Me Down Done Now Little

Any time you cast an actor, you don't just cast that actor; you cast all their other performances as well.

Time You Actor Well Cast Just

I'm free-spirited, and it gets me into trouble.

Me Trouble Gets

I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.

Life Love Women Music Men Universe

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Robert A. Heinlein

Life Good Society Back Manners Up

When it comes down to the music, it's just you and the microphone. It's not you and the record execs.

Music You Down Just Microphone

All of creation, in the biblical view, was to ultimately prepare the way for the creation of man. But one does not need the Bible alone to hold this view. A purely scientific reading of the universe is in keeping with this view. Everything - every natural and physical law - is exquisitely tuned to produce life, and ultimately man, on earth.

Life Alone Man Law Bible Reading

There is one thing in this good old world that is positively sure - happiness is for all who strive to be happy - and those who laugh are happy. Everybody is eligible - you - me - the other fellow. Happiness is fundamentally a state of mind - not a state of body.

Douglas Fairbanks

Good Happiness Happy Mind Be Happy

It's important to remember that, in the 1930s, a lot of people in the West looked at communism as a pretty good idea. That was partly because they didn't know how bad things were on the communist side of the world, but it was also partly because things were bad in the West.

Chrystia Freeland

Good People Communism World Remember

Theater's literally where I started.

Brian Tyree Henry

Where Started Theater Literally

I think we'll see, not only with Glass, but the watch wearables, with the contact lens, that each of these things have their own best purpose, but it will take more on our part and society's part to figure out what that is.

Best Purpose Society Think Lens See

The L.A. rap scene is popping again because rappers stopped saying 'West Coast.' Nobody says that anymore. Fans of L.A. music were reaching and saying, 'This is West Coast music,' because nobody else liked it.

Music Saying Nobody Rap Fans West

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