John Cleese Quotes

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

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A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.

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I started to make harder jokes before anyone else did. And the producers would get anxious. They'd say, 'That's a little bit hard-edged, isn't it' And I'd say, 'Let's just try it and see how the audience reacts. If they don't like it, let's cut it out.' And the audience roared with laughter, so I learned you could do this harder humor and people loved it.

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If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.

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The trouble with the British is that they are not interested in ideas. If Jesus came back today and offered to speak for an hour on British television, they would say, What Another talking head

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I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

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If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that'

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There's so many good people producing wine now, ... It's just amazing. There's so much on the shelves. You don't have to go buy those overpriced wines.

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It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend 2 or 3 years obsessing about the video game in exactly the same way that they'd be obsessing about the movie if they were working on that.

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We stay in contact vaguely because there are often little things to discuss, but I don't think we've been in a room together for four years.

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For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.

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If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

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I tend to have an odd split in my mind I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat.

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Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.

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The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

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If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat

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He who laughs most, learns best.

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But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.

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The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual. Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.

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is rooted in his gluttony.

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I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.

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I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing.

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I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

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When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.

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God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.

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