John Cleese Quotes - Page 7

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• I think you can write very good comedy without a partner, but what I love about it, working with a partner, is that you get to places you'd never get on your own. It's like when God was designing the world and decided we couldn't have children without a partner; it was a way of mixing up the genes so you'd get a more interesting product.

  John Cleese

  Children, Writing, Thinking

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

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• Would you take a billion dollars, if as part of the deal the Earth were made uninhabitable a year after your death? ... well, of course not; you care about your friends, above all your children, any grandchildren. But ... what if the deal calls for the planet to be poisoned a thousand years later? We feel strong obligations to generations in the near future - should we not feel the same way about our children's great-grandchildren and generations beyond them?

  John Cleese

  Strong, Children, Years

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• You have to create boundaries of space and then you have to create boundaries of time.

  John Cleese

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Space

  "4 Lessons In Creativity From John Cleese" by Rae Ann Fera, www.fastcompany.com. December 23, 2014.

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• Other people, you know, put a latex rubber on, you know, to become sexually excited. There's so much I don't understand.

  John Cleese

  People, Rubber, Excited

  "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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• years ago we would have been burned for this. Now what I am suggesting is that we've advanced.

  John Cleese

  Funny, Sarcastic, Years

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• On movies, I like to involve the cast in the writing of the script. I like to have a rehearsal period, after which I do the last draft, which gives me a chance to incorporate anything the actors have come up with during the rehearsal period, so I'm very inclusive as a writer.

  John Cleese

  Writing, Giving, Actors

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

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• What's the bleedin' point?

  John Cleese

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• If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you open to my ideas

  John Cleese

  Ideas, Laughing, Humour

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• The writing is the most important bit, and performing it is just closing the circle because I'm less likely to screw it up than anyone else.

  John Cleese

  Writing, Circles, Important

  "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 open mode is a mood in which curiosity for its own sake can operate, because we're not under pressure to get a specific thing done properly. We can play.

  John Cleese

  Play, Curiosity, Done

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• Laughter is a force for democracy.

  John Cleese

  Laughter, Democracy, Force

  "The Human Face". TV Series, 2001.

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• For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.

  John Cleese

  Growing Up, Men, Umpires

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• Sense of humor is so much more subjective than anyone believes.

  John Cleese

  Believe, Sense Of Humor, Subjective

  "John Cleese and The Key to Comedy". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 11, 2014.

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• It's easier to be creative if you've got other people to play with.

  John Cleese

  Play, People, Creative

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• High creativity is responding to situations without critical thought.

  John Cleese

  Creativity, Situation, Responding

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• Laughter is the best creative medicine.

  John Cleese

  Laughter, Creativity, Medicine

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• I'm very odd 'cause I think there's more than just a materialist planet, a materialist, reductionist planet.

  John Cleese

  Thinking, Causes, Odd

  "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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• I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

  John Cleese

  Book, Writing, Want

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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.

  John Cleese

  Love Life, Holy Grail, Sides

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

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• I don't want to hurt people.

  John Cleese

  Hurt, People, Want

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• For those wondering how to deal with anxiety and depression, the first thing to consider is what you're putting into your mouth.

  John Cleese

  Anxiety, Wonder

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.

  John Cleese

  Missing, London, Difficult

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

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• When you've only got few days of rehearsal before you're in the studio, it's wonderful to start off with people that you have good, friendly, tolerable relationships to start with, for the simple reason that you don't have to spend 24 hours figuring out how sensitive they are, and can you give them a line reading, or how do you have to give them direction.

  John Cleese

  Reading, Good Friend, Simple

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat.

  John Cleese

  Writing, Mind, Looks

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• Yes it's her husband. She hasn't got over it. Died thirty years ago.

  John Cleese

  Funny, Husband, Years

  John Cleese, Connie Booth (2001). “The Complete Fawlty Towers”

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