“If I can't really find a way to live with myself, I can't expect anyone else to live with me.”

— Peter Sellers

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

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British film actor, comedian and singer 1925–1980

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