Peter Sellers Quotes

• It won't be easy, that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded.

  Peter Sellers

  Easy, Pink Panther

  "Fictional character: Inspector Clouseau". "The Pink Panther Strikes Again", 1976.

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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!

  Peter Sellers

  Dog, Nice, Pet

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• You have to live before you die, or you'll die before you live.

  Peter Sellers

  Dies

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• I am here to fix the problem with yer pheaun.

  Peter Sellers

  Problem

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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 Sellers

  Reality, Faces, Labels

  "Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers". Book by Ed Sikov, 2002.

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• Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.

  Peter Sellers

  Inspirational, Funny, Movie

  "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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• François: Do you know what kind of a bomb it was? Clouseau: Yes, the exploding kind.

  Peter Sellers

  Kindness, Bombs, Pink Panther

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• Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this.

  Peter Sellers

  Justice, Let Me, Conclusion

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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.

  Peter Sellers

  Spiritual, Impact, Space

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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 Sellers

  Way To Live, Way, Ifs

  "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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• To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.

  Peter Sellers

  Labels, Comedy, Defeat

  "Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers". Book by Ed Sikov, 1999.

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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 Sellers

  Used, Used To Be

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Facts - behind them lies the whole fabric of deductive truth.

  Peter Sellers

  Truth, Lying, Reality

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• Is there anybody hiding there in the dark?

  Peter Sellers

  Dark, Darkness, Hiding

  "Fictional character: Clouseau". "The Pink Panther Strikes Again", www.imdb.com. 1976.

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• When you have been killed as many times as I have, you get used to it.

  Peter Sellers

  Used, Has Beens

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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 Sellers

  Party, Should Have, Feet

  "Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers". Book by Ed Sikov, p. 168, 1999.

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• Women are more difficult to handle than men. It's their minds.

  Peter Sellers

  Men, Mind, Difficult

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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 Sellers

  Play, Ask Me, Knows

  "Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion". Book by Leslie Halliwell 9p. 622), 1988.

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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 Sellers

  Daughter, Hands, Two

  "Fictional character: Chief Inspector Clouseau". "The Pink Panther Strikes Again", www.imdb.com. 1976.

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• I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.

  Peter Sellers

  Example, Classic, Humorists

  "I Am Your Father: What Every Heart Needs to Know". Book by Mark Stibbe, 2010.

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• Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.

  Peter Sellers

  Talking, Television, Unnecessary

  "Fictional character: Mr. Wang". "Murder by Death", 1976.

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• I writhe when I see myself on the screen. I'm such a dreadfully clumsy hulking image. I say to myself, "Why doesn't he get off? Why doesn't he get off?" I mean, I look like such an idiot. Some fat awkward thing dredged up from some third-rate drama company. I must stop thinking about it, otherwise I shan't be able to go on working.

  Peter Sellers

  Drama, Mean, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". 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?

  Peter Sellers

  War, Nuclear, Want

  "Fictional character: Captain Mandrake". "Dr. Strangelove", 1964.

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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.

  Peter Sellers

  Life, Pageantry, Cold

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• Relax, I'll get it. (said to Kato after Clouseau knocks him unconscious)

  Peter Sellers

  Relaxation, Relax, Said

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