Peter Sellers Quotes

1. 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.  


2. You only know what happiness is once you're married. But then it's too late.

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


4. (on Blake Edwards' smash hit 10 - 1979) I turned down the lead role (in "10") many, many times. I just didn't feel I was right for the part.


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

6. Conversation like television set on honeymoon…unnecessary.

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






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

9. 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.

10. Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this.








11. I'm a very ambitious person. I don't believe by any means that I've even begun to do what's inside me. I have a burning sort of fire inside me to do certain things which I know I'm going to do. I'm going to defeat all these berks that are around me and I'm going to do it. I mean, I have a name of being very difficult, I'm not difficult at all, I just cannot take mediocrity, I just cannot take it on any level.

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

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

14. (on Goldie Hawn) In the fullest possible meaning of the word she is so nice.

15. (on Sophia Loren) I was never in love with any woman as deeply as I was with Sophia.


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


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


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