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If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
John Cleese
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John Cleese
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: October 27
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The Americans are so much more positive. They are much more in love with success. In Britain, they're a fairly envious bunch, and they love it if you fail.
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Laughter is the best creative medicine.
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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!
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Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about.
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Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.
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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.
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Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean, uptight, incompetent bully comes naturally to me.
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I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.
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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.
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My views are heretical to people who believe in political correctness.
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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.
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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?
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Students who laugh more- learn more. Students who laugh more earn more.
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If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.
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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
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If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you open to my ideas
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I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.
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I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you're just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy.
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I think that the real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have a chance of experiencing something that is divine in nature.
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I have a tendency sometimes to get too logical with what I'm writing, just because I want it to be kind of perfect.
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