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Peter Ustinov Quotes

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Truth Ambition Truth Is Beyond Us

I kind of thought that stand-up comedy would suffer from the Internet because people seem to know more about the craft of stand-up than ever before. I thought it would seem trite. Kind of like if you know more about magicians, you wouldn't love them.

Love People Thought Internet Comedy

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Beach World Problems Guilt Place

What I've learned in my life, it's a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at home and being the guy on the road and being the guy in studio and being the guy in the interview. The environment around you has so much to do with your character, and when I'm home, my character really changes quite a bit.

Life Home Character Me Road My Life

People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.

Work Romantic I Am People Me Think

When I was little, like 7 to 15, there was nothing I wanted to do but go to church and go to school.

School Church Go Nothing Little

I was always the champion and will always be as long as I'm in the featherweight division.

Champion Long Will Always Division

The future is wider than vision, and has no end.

Donald G. Mitchell

Future Vision End Than Wider

Be Funny. Be naturally funny. If you're not, get out of the business. Be compassionate.

Funny Business You Out Get

Is there something in my genetic makeup that makes me more at risk for heart disease? I believe there is. My father was the sign.

Father Heart Me Makeup Believe Risk

I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet.

Together School High School Living

The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

Bruce Dickinson

Poetry Mystical Cover Album Forms

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

Pierre Corneille

Fight Glory Triumph Peril

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