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Statement (September 1961), as quoted in Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers (1999) by Ed Sikov, p. 168
Контексте: Criticism should be done by critics, and a critic should have some training and some love of the medium he is discussing. But these days, gossip-columnist training seems to be enough qualification. I suppose an ability to stand on your feet through interminable cocktail parties and swig interminable gins in between devouring masses of fried prawns may just possibly help you to understand and appreciate what a director is getting at, but for the life of me I can't see how.
“There is no me. I do not exist … There used to be a me, but I had it surgically removed.”
As "Himself" in The Muppet Show, episode # 2.19 (6 December 1977); also quoted in "Sellers Strikes Again"by Richard Schickel in TIME magazine (3 March 1980) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,950308,00.html?iid=chix-sphere <br class="br">Variants: <br class="br">There used to be a me behind the mask, but I had it surgically removed. <br class="br">As quoted in Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1988) by Leslie Halliwell, p. 622
“We don't want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, now do we Jack?”
As "Captain Mandrake" to Colonel Jack Ripper in Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Performances
“I'm a classic example of all humorists — only funny when I'm working.”
As quoted in I Am Your Father : What Every Heart Needs to Know (2010) by Mark Stibbe
“It won't be easy, that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded.”
As "Inspector Clouseau" in The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
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“If I can't really find a way to live with myself, I can't expect anyone else to live with me.”
As quoted in The Hollywood Book of Extravagance: The Totally Infamous, Mostly Disastrous, and Always Compelling Excesses of America's Film and TV Idols (2007) by James Robert Parish, p. 95
Mr. Strangelove (1999)
“As "Dr. Strangelove" in Dr. Strangelove (1964)”
Mein Führer! I can walk!
Performances
As "Chance" the gardener in Being There (1979)
Performances
“Gentlemen! You can't fight in here, this is the War Room!”
As "President Merkin Muffley" in Dr. Strangelove (1964)
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“If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.”
As quoted in Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1988) by Leslie Halliwell, p. 622
As quoted in The Hollywood Book of Extravagance: The Totally Infamous, Mostly Disastrous, and Always Compelling Excesses of America's Film and TV Idols (2007) by James Robert Parish, p. 93
“Conversation like television set on honeymoon… unnecessary.”
As "Mr. Wang" in Murder by Death (1976)
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“People will swim through shit if you put a few bob in it.”
As quoted in Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1988) by Leslie Halliwell, p. 622