Peter Sellers Quotes

I think for the longest time I used to be kind of embarrassed that if I hung out with someone that had a really, really strong personality, I would end up accidentally catching myself talking like them.

We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.

I think that like most girls in high school, I just mirrored what was around me.

I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.

If you want to fit in, you try to mirror whatever anyone wants from you.

I think that when people start hanging around each other, they start to pick on on each other's quirks and taste in music, apparently.

Kids get influenced by other kids.

I think that you form the way that you act from others around you; it's a kind of an environmental thing.

You have to fit in sometimes to make people comfortable to listen to you.

I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it.

I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.

Whoever imitates a people is one of them.

When people are free to do as we please, they usually imitate each other.

I have been 'absorbing' people - their voices, their mannerisms - all my life, to the point where I am a sort of Frankenstein of different people. My own speaking voice is, in fact, a mixture of how my two best mates speak, because they are cool, and I am not.

I understand that if someone's going to make me his idea of cool, I can't control that.

They think they're normal, because they all do the same thing. Well, I'm going to pretend that I have drunk from the same well as them.

In ten minutes they will have arrived on campus. George will have to be George; the George they have named and will recognise. So now he consciously applies himself to thinking their thoughts, getting into their mood. With the skill of a veteran, he rapidly puts on the psychological makeup for this role he must play.

What one person does, several people usually consider.

We are to a large extent an imitative society.

People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate.

Conformity is an imitation of grace.

We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.

Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.

No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.

Most people are sheep, and they need the support of others.