Peter Sellers Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Vocal music is an attempt to take the whole human being and project it into space. It is the ultimate gesture of getting out of yourself. You take a part of you that is most private, most personal, most inward and you hurl it out into space - you project it as far as you can. That gesture of opining this whole region of the body results in an enormous spiritual release, and is felt by other people with tremendous impact.”
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“Women are more difficult to handle than men. It's their minds.”
-- Peter SellersSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed.”
-- Peter SellersSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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“We don't want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, now do we Jack?”
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“Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.”
-- Peter SellersSource : "Fictional character: President Merkin Muffley". "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", www.imdb.com. 1964.
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“Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this.”
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“If I can't really find a way to live with myself, I can't expect anyone else to live with me.”
-- Peter SellersSource : "The Hollywood Book of Extravagance: The Totally Infamous, Mostly Disastrous, and Always Compelling Excesses of America's Film and TV Idols". Book by James Robert Parish, p. 95, 2007.
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“I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.”
-- Peter SellersSource : "I Am Your Father: What Every Heart Needs to Know". Book by Mark Stibbe, 2010.
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“Now then, what do we know? One, that Professor Fassbinder and his daughter have been kidnapped. Two, that someone has kidnapped them. Three, that my hand is on fire.”
-- Peter SellersSource : "Fictional character: Chief Inspector Clouseau". "The Pink Panther Strikes Again", www.imdb.com. 1976.
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“I feel ghostly unreal until I become somebody else again on the screen.”
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“To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience.”
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“It won't be easy, that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded.”
-- Peter SellersSource : "Fictional character: Inspector Clouseau". "The Pink Panther Strikes Again", 1976.
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“Criticism should be done by critics, and a critic should have some training and some love of the medium he is discussing. But these days, gossip-columnist training seems to be enough qualification. I suppose an ability to stand on your feet through interminable cocktail parties and swig interminable gins in between devouring masses of fried prawns may just possibly help you to understand and appreciate what a director is getting at, but for the life of me I can't see how.”
-- Peter SellersSource : "Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers". Book by Ed Sikov, p. 168, 1999.
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“If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.”
-- Peter SellersSource : "Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion". Book by Leslie Halliwell 9p. 622), 1988.
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“Is there anybody hiding there in the dark?”
-- Peter SellersSource : "Fictional character: Clouseau". "The Pink Panther Strikes Again", www.imdb.com. 1976.
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“I am here to fix the problem with yer pheaun.”
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“Ecstatic over the total annihilation of the Earth, Dr. Strangelove "resurrects" himself, miraculously regaining his ability to walk. His mechanical, robot-like body rises out of his wheelchair, crying exultantly: "Sir! I have a plan. Heh." (He realizes he is standing up.) "Mein Fuehrer, I can walk!"”
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“François: Do you know what kind of a bomb it was? Clouseau: Yes, the exploding kind.”
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“Clouseau: Does yer dewg bite? Inn Keeper: No Clouseau: Nice Doggy (bends down to pet a dachshund - it snarls and bites him) I thought you said yer dewg did not bite! Inn Keeper: Zat . . . iz not my dog!”
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“When you have been killed as many times as I have, you get used to it.”
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“To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.”
-- Peter SellersSource : "Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers". Book by Ed Sikov, 1999.
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“Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.”
-- Peter SellersSource : "Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers". Book by Ed Sikov, 2002.
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“Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.”
-- Peter SellersSource : "Fictional character: Mr. Wang". "Murder by Death", 1976.
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“You'll catch your death of cold. Clouseau: Yes, yes I probably will but . . . its all part of life's rich pageantry, you kneau.”
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“Relax, I'll get it. (said to Kato after Clouseau knocks him unconscious)”
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“Facts - behind them lies the whole fabric of deductive truth.”
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