PETER SELLERS

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

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

Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this.

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

There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed.

Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.

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

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

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

Gentlemen! You can't fight in here, this is the War Room!

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

Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy.

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

I try to hop into a new personality as often as I can.

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.

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.

When I look at myself, I see a person who strangely lacks what I consider the ingredients of a personality.

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.

I just cannot take mediocrity. I just cannot take it on any level.

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.

I might have got somewhere with 'The Ladykillers,' but forty minutes were cut. A lot of me was cut with that forty minutes.

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.

I believe in astrology and the spirits. I'm a Virgo myself.

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.

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.