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

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Source: As "Himself" in The Muppet Show, episode # 2.19 (6 December 1977); also quoted in "Sellers Strikes Again"by Richard Schickel in TIME magazine (3 March 1980)
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There used to be a me behind the mask, but I had it surgically removed. | As quoted in Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1988) by Leslie Halliwell, p. 622

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