François: Do you know what kind of a bomb it was? Clouseau: Yes, the exploding kind. Peter Sellers More Quotes by Peter Sellers More Quotes From Peter Sellers Women are more difficult to handle than men. It's their minds. Peter Sellers difficult mind men When you have been killed as many times as I have, you get used to it. Peter Sellers has-beens used I feel ghostly unreal until I become somebody else again on the screen. Peter Sellers unreal screens feels You'll catch your death of cold. Clouseau: Yes, yes I probably will but . . . its all part of life's rich pageantry, you kneau. Peter Sellers pageantry cold life To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience. Peter Sellers persons would-be wish Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary. Peter Sellers unnecessary talking television We don't want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, now do we Jack? Peter Sellers nuclear want war I believe in astrology and the spirits. I'm a Virgo myself. Peter Sellers myself i-believe-in i-believe believe I try to hop into a new personality as often as I can. Peter Sellers new try i-can personality I look in the mirror, and what I see is someone who has never grown up - a crashing sentimentalist who alternates between great heights and black depths. Peter Sellers mirror great look black I just cannot take mediocrity. I just cannot take it on any level. Peter Sellers cannot just take mediocrity I realise that certain actors project their own image onto the screen - those who are the same on as they are off. But I've never had the necessary statistics to be able to do that sort of thing, and so, anyway, I always wanted to be a character actor. Peter Sellers own never always character Sometimes I felt glad not to be too close to people. I might have been happier, I suppose. On the other hand, I never had much luck with people over the years. Peter Sellers never luck sometimes people Dad was convinced always that I was going to be a road sweeper. Peter Sellers going road always dad My mum very much wanted me to go into the theatre. Peter Sellers very go me theatre It depends on whom I'm with. Sometimes I start out in my own voice, and no matter who I'm with, I take on their thing. Peter Sellers my-own voice matter sometimes A person can destroy me with two words. It can just be the way they say them, the inflection. Peter Sellers words person me way When I am searching for a character, I leave myself open, as does a medium. And I think that sometimes you can be inhabited by the spirit of someone who lived at some time or who was a bit like the person you are doing. And maybe they come in and use you as a chance to relive again. Peter Sellers i-am myself time character I didn't always mean to be an actor. I was carried onto the stage when I was two days old, but I never acted as a child. My parents were stage people. Peter Sellers parents never child people I might have got somewhere with 'The Ladykillers,' but forty minutes were cut. A lot of me was cut with that forty minutes. Peter Sellers somewhere got me forty
