Miriam Margolyes: Peg Sellers
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Quotes
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[At Peter's wedding to the Swedish starlet Britt Ekland]
Peg Sellers : You've only known that bleedin' Nazi for 3 weeks.
Peter Sellers : Peg, I couldn't be happier.
Peg Sellers : Why are you making the same mistake all over again?
Peter Sellers : Because, my love, they won't let me marry you.
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[Peg visits Peter on the Dr Strangelove set, but he stays in character as Strangelove the whole time]
Limo Driver : How was lunch with your son, Mrs Sellers?
Peg Sellers : I don't know really. I didn't see him.
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Peter Sellers : [while changing his daughter's nappy] Those film people won't have anything to do with me, Mum. It was my fifth audition this week.
Peg Sellers : What do they say to you?
Peter Sellers : Same thing they always say to me, not good looking enough, not magnetic enough. "Stick to radio, dear, that's what you're good at." Keep being the ringmaster in a circus of twits. Maybe I should just be content.
Peg Sellers : You simpering cow. How can you be content changing nappies in a four room flat like a woman? You want to be a failure like your father, keep mewling about contentment.
Peter Sellers : That's not very fair, Peg.
Peg Sellers : I didn't bring you up to be content. I didn't slog round third-rate music halls doing 3 shows a night so you could powder your baby's bottom and whine about how no one gives the radio man a chance. Peter, no one's gonna hand it to you, you want success, you got to go out and take it. Bite the hand that feeds you, then there'll always be another hand with more food and they'll be impressed by the sharpness of your teeth!
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Peter Sellers : [on the lawn of his new house at his wedding reception after marrying Britt] What do you think of the new cottage?
Peg Sellers : You're watering the gin.
Peter Sellers : In your case, it's not a bad idea.
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[Peg is eating lunch with Peter on set of "Dr. Strangelove", while he is in-character as Dr. Strangelove]
Peg Sellers : You missed Sarah's birthday. Peter, you know the press pay a lot of attention to that sort of thing.
Peter Sellers : [as Dr. Strangelove] You know, liebchen, that is not chicken that you are eating.
Peg Sellers : Anyway, I told the man at The Times that you were busy filming, that you'd sent your love and nothing was more important to you than your children. I think he was satisfied with that.
[Peg reaches into her purse and pulls out a toy horse]
Peg Sellers : Sarah made you that.
[Peter as Strangelove feigns pained efforts to extinguish his cigarette into an ashtray]
Peg Sellers : Eat your lunch.
Peter Sellers : [as Dr. Strangelove] You know, in ze comink years, ze nuclear family as we know it will have ceased to exist. All human requirements... will be dealt with cleanly and efficiently. Nourishment. Leisure pastimes. *Sexual partners*! All zeez problems vill be regulated by ze state. So you see there will be no need for food.
[immediately performs involuntary heil salute - as in the movie]
Peter Sellers : OR MOTHERS!
[Peter's arm straightens out. As Strangelove, he grabs his arm and begins beating on it, as he does in the film]
