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
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.
good storm timing
The timing of the storm is good for us.
american-author
There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.
american-author behind
There used to be a me behind the mask, but I had it surgically removed.
daughter hands two
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.
feels unreal screens
I feel ghostly unreal until I become somebody else again on the screen.
television unnecessary conversation
Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.
funny movie war
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.
robots drs body
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!"
used has-beens
When you have been killed as many times as I have, you get used to it.
justice conclusion let-me
Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this.
life pageantry cold
You'll catch your death of cold. Clouseau: Yes, yes I probably will but . . . its all part of life's rich pageantry, you kneau.
easy pink-panther
It won't be easy, that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded.
party should-have feet
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.