Peter Ustinov (1921 – 2004)
Born Peter Alexander von Ustinov, was an Academy Award-winning English-German actor, writer, dramatist and raconteur.
I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins.
Lieutenant Seymour: Wyatt, we do not deal with justice here, but with the law.
Lieutenant Wyatt: Was not the one conceived to serve the other?
He had a great sense of the good in people. He enjoyed the peculiarities that were part of humanity. ... Filming can be desperately boring and he was always telling fantastic stories and being tremendously entertaining.
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
Irrespective of nationality, soldiers are always open to the same discomfort and to the same comradeship the world over. I'll make things easy for you if you make things easy for me. That is, after all the unwritten law of the barracks.
Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.