Peter Sellers Quotes

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

You'll catch your death of cold. Clouseau: Yes, yes I probably will but ... its all part of life's rich pageantry, you kneau.

I am here to fix the problem with yer pheaun.

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!"

Relax, I'll get it. (said to Kato after Clouseau knocks him unconscious)

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

Vocal music is an attempt to take the whole human being and project it into space. It is the ultimate gesture of getting out of yourself. You take a part of you that is most private, most personal, most inward and you hurl it out into space - you project it as far as you can. That gesture of opining this whole region of the body results in an enormous spiritual release, and is felt by other people with tremendous impact.

We don't want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, now do we Jack?

Women are more difficult to handle than men. It's their minds.

Conversation like television set on honeymoon ... unnecessary.

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.

I feel ghostly unreal until I become somebody else again on the screen.

To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.

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

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

Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this.

You have to live before you die, or you'll die before you live.

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.

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.

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