Peter Sellers Quotes

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.

There used to be a me, but I had it surgically removed.

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.

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the WAR ROOM!!!

There is no me. I do not exist … There used to be a me, but I had it surgically removed.

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

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.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle!

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

If I can't really find a way to live with myself, I can't expect anyone else to live with me.

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

There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me, but I had it surgically removed

To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience.

A person can destroy me with two words. It can just be the way they say them, the inflection.

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