John Cleese Quotes
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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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Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works.
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You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
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I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.
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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.
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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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If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'
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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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He who laughs most, learns best.
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I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.
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The Americans all love 'The Holy Grail', and the English all love 'Life Of Brian', and I'm afraid on this one, I side with the English.
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The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.
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A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.
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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
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Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste; it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person.
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English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.
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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.