Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers, CBEwas an English film actor, comedian and singer. He performed in the BBC Radio comedy series The Goon Show, featured on a number of hit comic songs and became known to a worldwide audience through his many film characterisations, among them Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther series of films...
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth8 September 1925
Peter Sellers quotes about
relaxation relax said
Relax, I'll get it. (said to Kato after Clouseau knocks him unconscious)
war want nuclear
We don't want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, now do we Jack?
reality labels faces
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.
wish would-be persons
To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience.
example classic humorists
I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.
kindness bombs pink-panther
François: Do you know what kind of a bomb it was? Clouseau: Yes, the exploding kind.
play ask-me ifs
If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.
dog nice pet
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!
drama mean thinking
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.
dark darkness pink-panther
Is there anybody hiding there in the dark?
truth lying reality
Facts - behind them lies the whole fabric of deductive truth.
dies
You have to live before you die, or you'll die before you live.
way-to-live way ifs
If I can't really find a way to live with myself, I can't expect anyone else to live with me.
problem
I am here to fix the problem with yer pheaun.