John Cleese Quotes - Page 8

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• I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.

  John Cleese

  Friendly, Actors, Television

  "Remembering Ronnie: tributes to Ronnie Barker", www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2005.

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• What have the Romans ever done for us?

  John Cleese

  Holy Grail, Done, Rhetorical Question

  "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 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.

  John Cleese

  Teenage, Writing, Kids

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• How to defend yourself against a banana

  John Cleese

  Bananas

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• Your Mother was A Hamster and you Father Smelled of elder berries.

  John Cleese

  Mother, Father, Berries

  "Monty Python And The Holy Grail", www.theguardian.com. 1975.

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• I wish you wusses would stop whining about your unhappiness. I'm really fed up with it. Pour yourself a scotch and pull yourself together. Go out and shoot something!

  John Cleese

  Wish, Together, Unhappiness

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I started to make harder jokes before anyone else did. And the producers would get anxious. They'd say, 'That's a little bit hard-edged, isn't it?' And I'd say, 'Let's just try it and see how the audience reacts. If they don't like it, let's cut it out.' And the audience roared with laughter, so I learned you could do this harder humor and people loved it.

  John Cleese

  Laughter, Cutting, People

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• What I've always wanted to do is be as funny as possible.

  John Cleese

  Wanted

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2009.

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• British press think entirely in clichés, and when they do come across creative work, they think that it must be based on something, because they don't realize that you can create things that aren't based on things.

  John Cleese

  Thinking, Creative, Realizing

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2009.

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• Nerves are always a big problem for me, which is why I loved doing American sitcoms. Because you know when you do the take in front of the audience that you're going to do it again afterwards. A minute after you finish, you just go and do it again. So, there's that sort of safety net. And then if you made a little mistake or two, they'll go pick it up, so there's nothing to worry about.

  John Cleese

  Mistake, Two, Safety

  Interview with Tracy Smith, www.cbsnews.com. October 25, 2015.

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• That's a lovely experience when you make an audience laugh. Then the nerves go away for a bit. And sometimes you do things then that you've never done before that are really funny.

  John Cleese

  Laughing, Lovely, Going Away

  Interview with David Morgan, www.cbsnews.com. October 25, 2015.

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• I've always called myself a writer/performer, not an actor because I basically write what I perform.

  John Cleese

  Writing, Actors, Performers

  "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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• The British fans are liable to suddenly be talking to you about something that you don't know how you got into the conversation. I think it's something to do with the fact that they've been watching you for so many years sort of you telling your story.

  John Cleese

  Thinking, Talking, Years

  "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 people quote sketches to me, half the time I don't know what they're talking about so I have to sort of go, aha, yes, oh yep, I remember that and lie my way out of it.

  John Cleese

  Lying, Talking, People

  "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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• The great thing about Florida is you - each city's about two hours' drive from everywhere else.

  John Cleese

  Florida, Cities, Two

  "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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• Everything in comedy's got to be exactly right, which is why making a comedic film is kind of a difficult process, because, for most of the two years of shooting it and editing it and reshooting and all of that, it's not quite right. And it's only when you just at the end, you put the final polish on it, it becomes really funny again.

  John Cleese

  Two, Editing, Years

  "How John Cleese got his accidental start in comedy". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. June 19, 2015.

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