All 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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Business
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If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
John Cleese
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Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.
John Cleese
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The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats.
John Cleese
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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.
John Cleese
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Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!
John Cleese
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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.
John Cleese
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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.
John Cleese
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You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
John Cleese
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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.
John Cleese
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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.
John Cleese
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I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.
John Cleese
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If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'
John Cleese
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I think that sometimes you do something that makes a small group of people laugh, which is all we were trying to do; we were just trying to make each other laugh.
John Cleese
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