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Peter Sellers
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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
Peter Sellers
British actor and comedian (1925–1980)
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Lived 1925–1980, aged 55United Kingdom
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Updated 2026-06-10
He was the man of a thousand voices who insisted he had no voice of his own. Peter Sellers turned self-erasure into art—becoming Inspector Clouseau, three characters in Dr. Strangelove, a simpleton who baffles Washington in Being There—but offstage the emptiness wasn't an act.
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Born Richard Henry Sellers on 8 September 1925, he grew up touring English variety halls with his parents and later drummed for troop shows during the war, honing the mimicry that would define him. In 1951 he joined Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe for The Goon Show on BBC Radio, a nine-year run that made him a household presence before he ever stepped in front of a camera. His film work through the 1950s and '60s revealed a performer who could inhabit aristocrats, buffoons, and megalomaniacs with equal conviction—The Ladykillers, Lolita, five Pink Panther films, the triple role in Dr. Strange…
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Peter Sellers
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Criticism should be done by critics, and a critic should have some training and some love of the medium he is discussing.
— Statement (September 1961), as quoted in Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers (1999) by Ed Sikov, p. 168
Peter Sellers
saidundated
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
Peter Sellers
saidundated
To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience.
— As quoted in The Hollywood Book of Extravagance: The Totally Infamous, Mostly Disastrous, and Always Compelling Excesses of America's Film
Peter Sellers
saidundated
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
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