“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