John Cleese Quotes
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The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.
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I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.
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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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But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.
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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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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 life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'
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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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A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.
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The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.
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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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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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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.