John Cleese Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
-
The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
-
Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
-
I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
-
I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
-
A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
-
I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
-
Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
-
I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
-
Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
-
Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
-
You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.
-
And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
-
If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.
-
Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
-
When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
-
I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
-
If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
-
Batty as it sounds, subject and style may choose artists, through some unfathomable cosmic means. How else to explain that even artists who enjoy what they do can be perplexed or even horrified that they're doing it?
-
As soon as you truly commit to making something happen, the 'how' will reveal itself.
-
Every tool is a weapon - if you hold it right.
-
I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
-
It's time for male leaders to not only ask for binders of qualified women, but to re-write the definition of 'qualified.' The best man for the job, may in fact, be a woman, whose biography is not traditional, but is rich with experiences and skills that are not necessarily learned either in school or on the job.
-
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
