Vocal music is an attempt to take the whole human being and project it into space. It is the ultimate gesture of getting out of yourself. You take a part of you that is most private, most personal, most inward and you hurl it out into space - you project it as far as you can. That gesture of opining this whole region of the body results in an enormous spiritual release, and is felt by other people with tremendous impact.

François: Do you know what kind of a bomb it was? Clouseau: Yes, the exploding kind.

When you have been killed as many times as I have, you get used to it.

Now then, what do we know? One, that Professor Fassbinder and his daughter have been kidnapped. Two, that someone has kidnapped them. Three, that my hand is on fire.

I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.

Relax, I'll get it. (said to Kato after Clouseau knocks him unconscious)