Film Quotes by Peter Ustinov
23 quotes
Year: 1960
Director:
Stanley Kubrick
Director:
Stanley Kubrick
Lentulus Biatatus:
[reacting to a slow servant] The sun's over there! I have to pay these people!
--
Peter Ustinov
(as Lentulus Batiatus)
in
Spartacus
(1960)
Year: 1968
Director:
Eric Till
Director:
Eric Till
Marcus Pendleton:
'Ere! You watch your tongue! Any idiot can steal. *I* been em-*bezz*-lin'!
--
Peter Ustinov
(as Marcus Pendleton / Caesar Smith)
in
Hot Millions
(1968)
Year: 1968
Director:
Eric Till
Director:
Eric Till
Marcus Pendleton:
Patty asks Marcus what are assets. Marcus replies "Little female donkeys" with a cackle.
--
Peter Ustinov
(as Marcus Pendleton / Caesar Smith)
in
Hot Millions
(1968)
Year: 1966
Socrates:
I've been looking forward to this trial as a runner looks forward to a race he can win.
--
Peter Ustinov
in
Barefoot in Athens
(1966)
Year: 1969
Mexican Soldier:
Halt, who goes there, please?
[to General Hallson on the other side of the door]
General Billy Joe Hallson: John Wayne!
Mexican Soldier: [opens door] Richard Widmark!
[to General Hallson on the other side of the door]
General Billy Joe Hallson: John Wayne!
Mexican Soldier: [opens door] Richard Widmark!
--
Peter Ustinov
in
Viva Max!
(1969)
Year: 1964
Director:
Jules Dassin
Director:
Jules Dassin
Turkish Official:
[advising Major Tufan of Simpson's criminal record] In 1958 he was deported from Britain for smuggling pornographic literature.
Arthur Simon Simpson: An art magazine, sir!
Turkish Official: Called...?
Arthur Simon Simpson: 'Stop Press Nudes'!
Arthur Simon Simpson: An art magazine, sir!
Turkish Official: Called...?
Arthur Simon Simpson: 'Stop Press Nudes'!
--
Peter Ustinov
(as Arthur Simon Simpson)
in
Topkapi
(1964)
Year: 1966
--
Peter Ustinov
in
Barefoot in Athens
(1966)
Year: 1964
Director:
Jules Dassin
Director:
Jules Dassin
[Simpson is talking to the Turkish guards who have arrested him]
Arthur Simon Simpson: You frighten me, sir. But, after all, that's part of your job. But if my father could hear you now he'd laugh himself sick. He wasn't no colonel, sir. I just said that in order to make myself seem important. He was a sergeant - acting sergeant - acting unpaid sergeant. And d'you know what he used to say to me? He used to say, "Arthur"... he used to call me Arthur... "Arthur, you're a carbuncle on the behind of humanity." Carbuncle! I'm a nothing! I'm a nobody!
Arthur Simon Simpson: You frighten me, sir. But, after all, that's part of your job. But if my father could hear you now he'd laugh himself sick. He wasn't no colonel, sir. I just said that in order to make myself seem important. He was a sergeant - acting sergeant - acting unpaid sergeant. And d'you know what he used to say to me? He used to say, "Arthur"... he used to call me Arthur... "Arthur, you're a carbuncle on the behind of humanity." Carbuncle! I'm a nothing! I'm a nobody!
--
Peter Ustinov
(as Arthur Simon Simpson)
in
Topkapi
(1964)
Year: 1962
Director:
Peter Ustinov
Director:
Peter Ustinov
Captain Vere:
I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.
--
Peter Ustinov
(as Edwin Fairfax Vere, Post Captain)
in
Billy Budd
(1962)
Year: 1962
Director:
Peter Ustinov
Director:
Peter Ustinov
Captain Vere:
In the question of Jenkins, Budd was telling the truth.
Lieutenant Seymour: I know, sir. What are you going to do about Claggart?
Captain Vere: What can I do but watch and wait? No court martial would do more than strip him of his rank for such misconduct. And then what? As a rating, he'd be slaughtered by the other men. And who would replace him? And would the French refrain from attacking us while we settled our petty differences? No, I must give him his head until some act puts him squarely counter to the law and then let the law consume him. What would you do if you were captain of this ship?
Lieutenant Seymour: I'm not captain of the ship, sir.
Captain Vere: One day you may be, Philip. Then, remember.
Lieutenant Seymour: I know, sir. What are you going to do about Claggart?
Captain Vere: What can I do but watch and wait? No court martial would do more than strip him of his rank for such misconduct. And then what? As a rating, he'd be slaughtered by the other men. And who would replace him? And would the French refrain from attacking us while we settled our petty differences? No, I must give him his head until some act puts him squarely counter to the law and then let the law consume him. What would you do if you were captain of this ship?
Lieutenant Seymour: I'm not captain of the ship, sir.
Captain Vere: One day you may be, Philip. Then, remember.
--
Peter Ustinov
(as Edwin Fairfax Vere, Post Captain)
in
Billy Budd
(1962)