Peter Ustinov Quotes

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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• The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.

  

  Carl Levin
  • People
  • American
  • Future

• In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Reality
  • Giving

• So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Audience
  • Songs

• Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • People
  • Life
  • Justice

• When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Character
  • Friends
  • Personality

• To me, it's weird when people review improv at all.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • People
  • Weird
  • Improv

• I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Thought
  • Envy

• I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Free

• When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright embarrassing.

  

  Callum Blue
  • People
  • Red
  • Hell

• It's human nature to want to be with other people.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • People
  • Nature
  • Want

• Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Guy
  • Respect

• Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the greatest actors of our age; he's like Olivier. He's one of those people who can take you into a place where no one else can take you.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Age
  • Greatest

• I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Character
  • Judge

• People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • People
  • Changes
  • Detail

• When you tell people you are a model, they have a very narrow view of who you are, and it's good to be able to say that it's not all that I am.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • People
  • Model
  • View

• I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Country
  • Dream

• People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • World
  • Experience

• Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Creative

• I'm shooting in Brooklyn, we've got all kinds of crap going on, and I'm all alone now in a big hotel suite that you can't believe the size of it and a thing sticks in my foot and I just think it's the funniest thing that's ever happened to me.

  

  Danny DeVito
  • Believe
  • Alone

• I think a very good system in a world with a lot of passive investors is one in which there are at least a few entrepreneurial investors, prepared to say what they think, prepared to propose a change in management, change in strategy, change in cost structure, capital structure.

  

  Bill Ackman
  • World
  • Good
  • Management

• I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other people.

  

  Kumail Nanjiani
  • People
  • Business
  • Comedy

• With tough interpretation of taxi and zoning regulations, neither Uber nor Airbnb would have gotten started. By the time many cities recognized their existence, both were fairly large and had the political support of their customers.

  

  Brad Stone
  • Time
  • Political
  • Support

• 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.

  

  Peter Ustinov
  • People
  • Believe
  • Friends