John Cleese Quotes

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

John Cleese

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• Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Work
  • Money
  • Idea

• I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Actor

• I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Time
  • Attention

• I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Know
  • Write
  • Obviously

• I'll say anything to live.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Live
  • Say
  • Anything

• It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • You
  • Believing
  • Push

• I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Morning
  • Found
  • Mud

• I'm not somebody who is genetically gifted when it comes to facial hair.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Hair
  • Gifted
  • Genetically

• The largest newspaper in the United States is only reaching 1 percent of population. We are kind of assuming that 'Wall Street Journal,' 'USA Today,' and other newspapers are very important. Yes, they're extremely important, but only to 1 percent of the population on a daily basis.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Important
  • Today
  • Wall

• As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I want this company to last long, and I want this company to be audited by everyone.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Long
  • Business
  • Finance

• Roy Keane and Paul Scholes were unbelievable players. You cannot compare yourself to them. It is impossible. Scholes especially, I like him a lot, and I have a lot of respect for what he did for United.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • You
  • Respect
  • Yourself

• Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.

  

  Barack Obama
  • You
  • Stop
  • Over

• My home has always been show business.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Home
  • Business
  • Always

• The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Real
  • Fun
  • Interesting

• There was no one around me who didn't work hard.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Work
  • Me
  • Work Hard

• While the average well adjusted man can make the reality that is generally accepted as truth into his own truth, the creative searcher after truth seeks and finds his own truth which he then wants to make general.

  

  Otto Rank
  • Truth
  • Reality

• That stupid fucking kid! That stupid fucking kid! Look what he's done to me!

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Done
  • Stupid

• If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • God

• If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Knowledge
  • Running
  • Wisdom

• Capital, however capital may be defined, would practically cease to exist as an income producing fund, for the simple reason that if money, wherewith to buy capital, could be obtained for one-half of one per cent, capital itself could command no higher price.

  

  John Buchanan Robinson
  • Money
  • May
  • Simple

• I have made stage adjustments which allow me to hear myself better onstage so that has made playing live much more enjoyable.

  

  Michael Schenker
  • Made
  • Enjoyable
  • Adjustment

• Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

  

  Hale White
  • Myself
  • Worry
  • Virtue

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

  

  John Cleese