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