John Cleese Quotes
Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.
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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
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I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.
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I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.
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I cannot abide being bored.
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High school is the time to find yourself and to explore with fashion and create your own identity.
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My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.
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What you see in 'Daredevil' and 'Jessica Jones' isn't the Hell's Kitchen of today; it's a version of what it was like.
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I'll always welcome some extra shifts and some extra ice time, and it's my job to be as prepared as possible to play those minutes.
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Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
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I just go out there every game and try to be the best I can be for our team.
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I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.
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I love soldiers. They are my kids, they are my children.
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Human nature is not simple and any classification that roughly divides men into good and bad, superior and inferior, slave and free, is and must be ludicrously untrue and universally dangerous as a permanent exhaustive classification.
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Justice could be cruel, and crueler yet necessity, but mercy was the cruelest thing of all.
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Parading about in the latest gowns and making dull platitudes for an entire evening doesn't constitute social success in my book.
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Theatre is immediate, it's alive, you're there with the audience, it can't be done again and again and again and again, it's organic.
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I was going to be a doctor since I was three, so I was pre-med in college. Everything I did, every class I took, pointed toward the 'holy M.D.' Friends were taking wine-tasting classes, studying human sexuality, or redefining their views of the world in poli-sci, and I was memorizing anatomy and crying over o-chem.
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The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled, whether it's trendy or not. A man can change his haircut many times, but to pull off any haircut, you have to be very chic. Like Brad Pitt.
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Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.
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What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves.
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Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.
