Quote

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

John Cleese

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Cleese
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: October 27
Actor
Autobiographer
Comedian
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Writer
Weston-super-Mare
Somerset
John Marwood Cleese
Creativity
Design
Choices
Poor
Confrontation
Times
Avoiding
Made
Several
Necessary
Choice

More quotes by John Cleese

Image
Bureaucrats shouldn't be in charge of comedy.
John Cleese
Image
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
Image
When we hold a World Championship for a particular sport, we invite teams from other countries to play as well.
John Cleese
Image
It’s only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve.
John Cleese
Image
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
Image
What is absurd is not the teachings of the founders of religion, it's what followers subsequently make of it.
John Cleese
Image
I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.
John Cleese
Image
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him enter regional distribution codes in data field 97 to facilitate regression analysis on the back end.
John Cleese
Image
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
Image
There's nothing good on the television let's burn a witch. It must have been terribly exciting to live in those times.
John Cleese
Image
England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.
John Cleese
Image
We all die at the end, but does that nullify everything? Would most people rather say, I wish I hadn't been born? Once you're born you'll have to die, now is that funny or sad?
John Cleese
Image
What's the bleedin' point?
John Cleese
Image
Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean, uptight, incompetent bully comes naturally to me.
John Cleese
Image
I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.
John Cleese
Image
I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.
John Cleese
Image
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
Image
Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.
John Cleese
Image
This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.
John Cleese
Image
Sense of humor is so much more subjective than anyone believes.
John Cleese