Peter Sellers Quotes

We've pitched and even begun development on a number of fantasy worlds that have never seen the light of day. All of those worlds... It's soul-crushing to see them sputter out, one by one. Lost. Like tears. In rain.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

I'm the first to admit that I never achieved my potential as an actress.

I believe that a dream un-followed turns into all kinds of bad things in the lives of those who don't pursue them.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

'Vegas' was something very close to me. I had such a blast doing that. I'm still a little upset that we never really got to shoot that final episode. So many people were invested in it. I'll always be sad about that.

'Sunrise Sunset' is a letter I wrote to a girl I was once with who I really thought I was going to fall in love with. We tried to make it work but always had trouble maintaining a real relationship because we were both so caught up with work, life, and everything else that at the time seemed like it was the priority.

'The Restraint of Beasts' is a painful subject. We'd shot 60% of the film when I had to stop. The material looks great, like nothing I've ever done or even seen before. It could have been really great, definitely original.

We're so sure of what our unlived lives would have been like that we feel guilty for not living them - for not living up to our potential.

I forget who said it, but there's that saying: 'Films are never finished, they're abandoned.' There's always something you think you can improve on, but I don't think you should try. George Lucas started doing it, and didn't stop. You can tinker indefinitely, and it doesn't necessarily make it better.

For me, the saddest thing in the world is always lost potential. That is always the most heartbreaking thing, when there's something left to be mined from a situation or a person that goes unexplored; that's a tragedy to me.

I've produced, but as for directing, that's a dream that'll have to go unfulfilled.

Films are a director's medium. We're all stemming from the director.

Growing up, I didn't know where I was headed, except to the grave or maybe to the gutter. I went through wanting to do a lot of things, but acting wasn't one of them.

I should never have left Italy and Juve.

Those regrets that I do have are, exclusively, not doing plays that I wish I had done.

I think it's a pity for him that my father didn't have the pleasure of seeing me grow up. I think he missed out on something. But it doesn't matter. It's boring. I don't have any anger about it.

By the time I got to 2015, I was sliding down the card. I was getting opportunities that I thought were kind of wasted. Like, I became the King of the Ring, which sounds like it should be impressive, but what it was followed up with was zero rises.

If I didn't finish high school, I would wonder about that part of my life.

I can't remember who said, 'No film is completed, just abandoned,' but I think most filmmakers will tell you that they could endlessly fiddle with their films for the next couple of decades, you know, changing things, altering things.

President Kennedy's life and death represent both what is possible in America, and all of the work left undone.

My grandmother really wanted to see me become a singer, but she passed away before I became one.

I was a very serious child who never got to enjoy life to the fullest like a normal, healthy kid.