John Cleese Quotes

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• Political correctness is a bit like a granny, a maiden aunt arriving at a party when everyone's having a good time. And she comes in, they all start sort of buttoning up and becoming self-conscious and behaving properly and then when she leaves, you can have fun again.

  John Cleese

  Fun, Party, Aunt

  "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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• Creativity is not the possession of some special talent.
  It’s about the willingness to play.

  John Cleese

  Creativity, Play, Special

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• Life is a terminal disease, and it is sexually transmitted.

  John Cleese

  Disease, Life Is, Sexually

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• The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.

  John Cleese

  Stupidity, Absolutely Nothing, Can Do

  Twitter post from Apr 4, 2017

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• A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

  John Cleese

  Laughter, People, Kind

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

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• Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

  John Cleese

  Music, Mistake, Creative

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• There are 3 basic differences between we British and you Americans. One, we speak English, and you don't. Two, when we have a "World Championship", we invite teams from other nations. Three, when you meet the British head of State, you only have to get down on one knee.

  John Cleese

  Team, Two, Differences

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• If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

  John Cleese

  Funny, Animal, Meat

  "W.T.F.?". Book by H. M. Leathem, 2006.

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• I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.

  John Cleese

  Stupid, Thinking, Ideas

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• Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

  John Cleese

  Writing, Creativity, Way

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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.

  John Cleese

  Ideas, Interesting, Long

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• If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.

  John Cleese

  Preparation, Alternatives, Moments

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• All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

  John Cleese

  Wine, Order, Medicine

  "Fictional character: Reg". "Life of Brian", www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• If you want to know who your friends are, have a major failure.

  John Cleese

  Jail, Who Your Friends Are, Want

  "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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• When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much.

  John Cleese

  People, Age, World

  "The Secret Life of Brian". TV Movie, January 1, 2007.

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• Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like.

  John Cleese

  Exquisite, Ought

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• Aping urbanity,
  Oozing with vanity,
  Plump as a manatee,
  Faking humanity,
  Intellectual inanity,
  Journalistic calamity,
  Fox Noise insanity,
  You're a profanity,
  Hannity.

  John Cleese

  Vanity, Insanity, Humanity

  "Ode to Sean Hannity". Poem by John Cleese, www.dailykos.com.

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• He who laughs most, learns best.

  John Cleese

  Inspirational, Teacher, Learning

  "Creating Emotionally Safe Schools: A Guide for Educators and Parents" by Jane Bluestein, (p. 215), 2001.

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• No hope for planet at all. But I will be gone before the planet is gone, so it's your problem.

  John Cleese

  Gone, Problem, Planets

  "How John Cleese got his accidental start in comedy". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. January 19, 2015.

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• My views are heretical to people who believe in political correctness.

  John Cleese

  Believe, Views, People

  "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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• A satisfied customer. We should have him stuffed.

  John Cleese

  Funny, Sarcastic, Should Have

  John Cleese, Connie Booth (2001). “The Complete Fawlty Towers”, p.164, Da Capo Press

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• Laughter destroys any divisions between people.

  John Cleese

  Laughter, People, Division

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• You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him enter regional distribution codes in data field 97 to facilitate regression analysis on the back end.

  John Cleese

  Horse, Data, Water

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• ...when you collaborate with someone else on something creative, you get to places that you would never get to on your own. The way an idea builds as it careens back and forth between good writers is so unpredictable. Sometimes it depends on people misunderstanding each other, and that's why I don't think there's any such thing as a mistake in the creative process. You never know where it might lead.

  John Cleese

  Mistake, Thinking, Ideas

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• I can do anything I want, I'm eccentric!

  John Cleese

  Want, Eccentric, Rat Race

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