John Cleese Quotes - Page 5

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• It's a plastic surgeon you need, not a doctor

  John Cleese

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Doctors

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• It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.

  John Cleese

  Despair, Laura, Brian

  "Fictional character: Brian Stimpson". "Clockwise", www.imdb.com. 1986.

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• Filming takes a lot out of you. It really does. It's immensely demanding, and you have to put the rest of your life in the icebox until you do your final shot.

  John Cleese

  Doe, Finals, Rest Of Your Life

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. February 5, 2008.

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• Bureaucrats shouldn't be in charge of comedy.

  John Cleese

  Comedy, Bureaucrats

  "Interview: John Cleese and Eric Idle, founding members of Monty Python". Interview with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. February 18, 2016.

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• When we hold a World Championship for a particular sport, we invite teams from other countries to play as well.

  John Cleese

  Funny, Sports, Sarcastic

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• I find the Alexander Technique very helpful in my work. Things happen without you trying. They get to be light and relaxed. You must get an Alexander teacher to show it to you.

  John Cleese

  Teacher, Light, Trying

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• It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend 2 or 3 years obsessing about the video game in exactly the same way that they'd be obsessing about the movie if they were working on that.

  John Cleese

  Years, Games, People

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• If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

  John Cleese

  Teamwork, Fun, Business

  "Best New Games" by Dale N. LeFevre, (p. 9), 2002.

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• A lot of humour is about just enjoying life and spontaneity and because you make a joke that puts somebody down - we're always teasing each other. It's with affection. It's nasty teasing that we - not all teasing; nasty teasing you cut out.

  John Cleese

  Cutting, Enjoy Life, Nasty

  "Interview: John Cleese and Eric Idle, founding members of Monty Python". Interview with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. February 18, 2016.

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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.

  John Cleese

  Fake People, Acting, Very Good

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• I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you're just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy.

  John Cleese

  Laughter, Distance, Humor

  "The Human Face". Documentary, 2001.

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• As Daniel Levitin writes, our brain is a "giant pattern detector." If we read something that coincides with what we already believe we're more likely to give it credence, while the opposite is not true.

  John Cleese

  Believe, Writing, Giving

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'

  John Cleese

  Thinking, Parent, Different

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• I was a terrible dancer. I dance like an Englishman.

  John Cleese

  Dancer, Terrible, Englishmen

  "Early On, Comedian John Cleese Says, He Had Good Timing But Little Else". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. October 16, 2015.

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• You go in and meet the head of BBC One and get an assurance about not dumbing down. And then, of course a few months later, he's been replaced by someone you haven't met.

  John Cleese

  Down And, Months, Mets

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!

  John Cleese

  Girl, Writing, Film

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• Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean, uptight, incompetent bully comes naturally to me.

  John Cleese

  Character, Mean, Bully

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, 1997.

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• I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

  John Cleese

  Thinking, Force, Spoil

  "Ross and Brand were astoundingly tasteless". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2008.

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• The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats.

  John Cleese

  Growing Up, Thrill, Busters

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• If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.

  John Cleese

  Humor, Ideas, Laughing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  John Cleese

  Sarcastic, Business, Sarcasm

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.

  John Cleese

  Mean, Comedy, Mean Spirited

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• I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.

  John Cleese

  Sports, Nuts, London

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• Tension is wonderful for making people laugh.

  John Cleese

  Writing, People, Laughing

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• Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.

  John Cleese

  Christmas, Want, Calgary

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