Peter Sellers famous quotes

05-24-2025

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.
-- Peter Sellers

#Spiritual #Space #Impact
Women are more difficult to handle than men. It's their minds.
-- Peter Sellers

#Men #Mind #Difficult
There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed.
-- Peter Sellers

#Used
We don't want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, now do we Jack?
-- Peter Sellers

#War #Nuclear #Want
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.
-- Peter Sellers

#War #Fighting #Gentleman
Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this.
-- Peter Sellers

#Justice #Conclusion #Let Me
If I can't really find a way to live with myself, I can't expect anyone else to live with me.
-- Peter Sellers

#Way
I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.
-- Peter Sellers

#Example #Classic #Humorists
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 Sellers

#Daughter #Hands #Two
I feel ghostly unreal until I become somebody else again on the screen.
-- Peter Sellers

#Feels #Unreal
To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience.
-- Peter Sellers

#Wish #Would Be #Persons
It won't be easy, that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded.
-- Peter Sellers

#Easy
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 Sellers

#Party #Feet #Appreciate
If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.
-- Peter Sellers

#Play #Ask Me
Is there anybody hiding there in the dark?
-- Peter Sellers

#Dark #Darkness #Hiding
I am here to fix the problem with yer pheaun.
-- Peter Sellers

#Problem
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!"
-- Peter Sellers

#Robots #Drs #Body
FranÃ§ois: Do you know what kind of a bomb it was? Clouseau: Yes, the exploding kind.
-- Peter Sellers

#Kindness #Bombs #Kind
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!
-- Peter Sellers

#Dog #Nice #Pet
When you have been killed as many times as I have, you get used to it.
-- Peter Sellers

#Used
To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.
-- Peter Sellers

#Labels #Comedy #Defeat
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 Sellers

#Reality #Labels #Faces
Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.
-- Peter Sellers

#Television #Unnecessary #Conversation
You'll catch your death of cold. Clouseau: Yes, yes I probably will but . . . its all part of life's rich pageantry, you kneau.
-- Peter Sellers

#Life #Pageantry #Cold
Relax, I'll get it. (said to Kato after Clouseau knocks him unconscious)
-- Peter Sellers

#Relaxation #Relax #Said
Facts - behind them lies the whole fabric of deductive truth.
-- Peter Sellers

#Truth #Lying #Reality

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