John Cleese Quotes - Page 6

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

  John Cleese

  Mean, Comedy, Mean Spirited

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• Tension is wonderful for making people laugh.

  John Cleese

  Writing, People, Laughing

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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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• 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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• By watching the great, old comedians I picked up a few tricks about how to do physical comedy. And whenever I could learn something, I sort of added that to my repertoire.

  John Cleese

  Comedian, Comedy, Tricks

  "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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• Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

  John Cleese

  Wine, People, Stuff

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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.

  John Cleese

  Television, World, Bad In The World

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• The trouble with the British is that they are not interested in ideas. If Jesus came back today and offered to speak for an hour on British television, they would say, "What! Another talking head?

  John Cleese

  Jesus, Talking, Ideas

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• When you've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know a specific joke, you can pretty much guess what it's going to be.

  John Cleese

  Years, Comedy, Forty

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• It's too difficult to start right from scratch and try and be funny out of the blue.

  John Cleese

  Blue, Trying, Scratches

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

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• I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

  John Cleese

  Thinking, Long, People

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• I think the hard thing for young comedians is that the majority of the young people in the audience out there don't have the wide range of references.

  John Cleese

  Thinking, People, Comedian

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

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• Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.

  John Cleese

  Creativity, Intelligent, Example

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• I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn't know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret.

  John Cleese

  Wine, Differences, Vineyards

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• I think there are so many activities going on, like mountaineering. You know, you would pay good money not to have to do that, and yet there are people racing out who want to spend their spare time clambering up rocks.

  John Cleese

  Thinking, Rocks, 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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• Naturally, people's image is of a performer, but the reality of it is the writing for me has always been the most important thing and the most rewarding thing.

  John Cleese

  Writing, Reality, 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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• I could take an umbrella and balance it on my chin or on my foot. And I just got interested in that kind of thing. And as I played games more and more and got stronger physically, I just became more coordinated.

  John Cleese

  Feet, Games, Stronger

  "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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• Sci-fi has never really been my bag. But I do believe in a lot of weird things these days, such as synchronicity. Quantum physics suggests it's possible, so why not?

  John Cleese

  Believe, Bags, Why Not

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

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• If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time for considering alternative strategies... Do it in the 'closed' mode. But the moment the action is over, try to return to the 'open' mode... because in that mode we are the most aware, most receptive, most creative, and therefore at our most intelligent.

  John Cleese

  Intelligent, Creative, Trying

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• My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me.

  John Cleese

  Strong, Documentaries, Wildlife

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• Michael Palin decided to give up on his considerable comedy talents to make those dreadfully tedious travel shows. Have you ever tried to watch one?

  John Cleese

  Travel, Giving Up, Watches

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• Although I had good hand-eye coordination, I was so tall and skinny and muscularly weak that I just was not well coordinated. But what I started to do quite early on was watch some of the great old silent comedians, like Laurel and Hardy and Chaplin, and then later on Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton.

  John Cleese

  Eye, Hands, Comedian

  "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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• 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.

  John Cleese

  Fun, Ideas, Taste

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

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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 not quite sure what you're supposed to sit.

  John Cleese

  Christmas, Scary, Joining

  "Die Another Day - Cleese talks Q / writers discuss plot" by Jack Foley, indielondon.co.uk. 2003.

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• My hovercraft is full of eels.

  John Cleese

  Eels, Hovercrafts

  Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones (2009). “Monty Python Live!”, Hyperion

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