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Peter Ustinov
said
To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.
— As quoted in Who Said That? (1984) by Renie Gee.
Peter Ustinov
British actor, writer and director (1921–2004)
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Updated 2026-08-31
A character actor who could steal scenes from gladiators and then steal the show on a talk show — Ustinov turned wit into a second career, holding dinner parties hostage with stories as deftly as he played Agatha Christie's preening Belgian detective six times over.
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Born in London in April 1921, Peter Ustinov built a half-century screen career on roles that let him chew scenery with precision: a Roman slave dealer in Quo Vadis, then the con men and schemers that won him Oscars for Spartacus in 1960 and Topkapi four years later. He voiced both Prince John and King Richard in Disney's Robin Hood, embodied Hercule Poirot across film and television, and racked up Emmys, a Grammy, and a Golden Globe along the way. But the stage and screen were only half the act: he spent decades as a fixture on lecture circuits and talk shows, deployed his polyglot charm as a…
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Peter Ustinov
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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
— As quoted in Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1982) by Jonathon Green
Peter Ustinov
said
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
— As quoted in The Book of Quotes (1979) by Barbara Rowes, p. 164
Peter Ustinov
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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.
— As quoted in Words and Their Masters (1974) by Israel Shenker, p. 170
Peter Ustinov
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By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
— As quoted in Contemporary Quotations (1969) by James Beasley Simpson
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- Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Bavarian TV Awards
- honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Golden Schlitzohr
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