English - Actor | September 8, 1925 - July 24, 1980
My mum very much wanted me to go into the theatre.
Peter Sellers
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I try to hop into a new personality as often as I can.
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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.
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I just cannot take mediocrity. I just cannot take it on any level.
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A person can destroy me with two words. It can just be the way they say them, the inflection.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I might have got somewhere with 'The Ladykillers,' but forty minutes were cut. A lot of me was cut with that forty minutes.
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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.
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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.
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When I look at myself, I see a person who strangely lacks what I consider the ingredients of a personality.
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