"It was Hank Aaron who hung that Dr. Strangeglove tag on me. I told him, to his face, that he would never amount to anything."

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“Peter Sellers is now in the $250,000-per-picture class—that was his deal with Stanley Kubrick for "Dr. Strangeglove" —and inasmuch as he makes pictures as fast as he can read scripts, he should be a millionaire by Saturday.”

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