All John Cleese Quotes
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
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Business
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If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
John Cleese
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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
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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
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Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!
John Cleese
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I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.
John Cleese
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Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.
John Cleese
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You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
John Cleese
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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
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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
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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
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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
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