Explore Quotes by Peter Sellers

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.

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

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.

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

Now then, what do we know? One, that Professor Fassbinder and his daughter have been kidnapped. Two, that someone has kidnapped them. Three, that my hand is on fire.

It won't be easy, that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded.