There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed.
Peter Sellers
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.
Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this.
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.
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.
Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.
If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.
I believe in astrology and the spirits. I'm a Virgo myself.
When I look at myself, I see a person who strangely lacks what I consider the ingredients of a personality.
I just cannot take mediocrity. I just cannot take it on any level.
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.
A person can destroy me with two words. It can just be the way they say them, the inflection.
I've had three marriages end in disaster. Lynne knew the score when she married me. It was always just a matter of time before she became the fourth ex-Mrs. Peter Sellers.
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.
My ambition in the cinema, since I came across it, was to play Chance... I have realized that ambition, and so I have no more.
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.
I might have got somewhere with 'The Ladykillers,' but forty minutes were cut. A lot of me was cut with that forty minutes.
Dad was convinced always that I was going to be a road sweeper.
I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.
Women are more difficult to handle than men. It's their minds.
To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience.
I feel ghostly unreal until I become somebody else again on the screen.
My mum very much wanted me to go into the theatre.
I try to hop into a new personality as often as I can.
Our relationship was one of the things that helped break up my first marriage. Miss Loren was always phoning me, and I'd go rushing all over Italy to be with her.
