Frases de Peter Sellers

Richard Henry Sellers, más conocido como Peter Sellers , fue un actor y comediante británico. Fue investido miembro de la Orden del Imperio Británico.

Nacido en el seno de una familia de artistas del vaudeville, inició su carrera con el grupo cómico The Goons, cuya serie The Goon Show en la emisora de radio BBC tuvo una gran influencia en la sociedad británica de 1951 a 1960.

Tras convertirse en estrella en el Reino Unido durante los años 1950, el actor alcanzaría la fama internacional en la siguiente década, coronándose como uno de los rostros de comedia más populares de la pantalla grande durante los años 60 y 70.

Entre sus papeles más reconocidos se incluyen los de películas como Lolita y Dr. Strangelove , ambas dirigidas por Stanley Kubrick, y por las cinco películas de la serie de La pantera rosa, dirigidas por Blake Edwards.

✵ 8. septiembre 1925 – 24. julio 1980
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Peter Sellers: Frases en inglés

“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.”

Statement (September 1961), as quoted in Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers (1999) by Ed Sikov, p. 168
Contexto: 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
Variants:
There used to be a me behind the mask, but I had it surgically removed.
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)
Performances

“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

“I like to watch.”

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)
Performances

“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

“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 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)
Performances

“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

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