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Peter Sellers Quotes

1925–1980 England

Peter Sellers, CBE (born Richard Henry Sellers; 8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English film actor, comedian and singer.

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Actors
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Also known as: Sellers, Peter

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

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

Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1988)

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

People will swim through shit if you put a few bob in it.

Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1988)

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

I Am Your Father : What Every Heart Needs to Know (2010)

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.

Mr. Strangelove (1999)

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

Mr. Strangelove (1999)

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

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Peter Sellers (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.