Comedy Quotes by Peter Sellers

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

— Peter Sellers

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

— Peter Sellers

Vocal music is an attempt to take the whole human being and project it into space. It is the ultimate gesture of getting out…

— Peter Sellers

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

— Peter Sellers

Dad was convinced always that I was going to be a road sweeper.

— Peter Sellers

Is there anybody hiding there in the dark?

— Peter Sellers

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

— Peter Sellers

I writhe when I see myself on the screen. I'm such a dreadfully clumsy hulking image. I say to myself, "Why doesn't he get…

— Peter Sellers

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

— Peter Sellers

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

— Peter Sellers

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

— Peter Sellers

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

— Peter Sellers

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

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

— Peter Sellers

To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.

— Peter Sellers