Peter Ustinov Quotes
Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.
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I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.
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I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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Histories of ages past Unenlightened shadows cast. Down through all eternity The crying of humanity. 'Tis then when the Hurdy Gurdy Man Comes singing songs of love...
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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
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Not just charity, even corruption begins at home.
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Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.
