Quote

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

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
Going
Bunch
Always
Beats
West
Sports
Mercenaries
Interest
Nuts
Whether
North
Lost
Beat
Another
London

More quotes by 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
My views are heretical to people who believe in political correctness.
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
The Americans are just more enthusiastic and more likely to engage in hyperbole.
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
Filming takes a lot out of you. It really does. It's immensely demanding, and you have to put the rest of your life in the icebox until you do your final shot.
John Cleese
Image
If I like chocolate it won't surprise you that I have a few chocolates in my fridge, but if you find out I've got 16 warehouses full of chocolate, you'd think I was insane. All these rich guys are insane, obsessive compulsive twits obsessed with money - money is all they think about - they're all nuts.
John Cleese
Image
My mum died about three years ago at the age of 101, and just towards the end, as she began to run out of energy, she did actually stop trying to tell me what to do most of the time.
John Cleese
Image
The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.
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
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 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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
What's the bleedin' point?
John Cleese
Image
The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats.
John Cleese
Image
A satisfied customer. We should have him stuffed.
John Cleese
Image
I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.
John Cleese
Image
Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!
John Cleese
Image
Students who laugh more- learn more. Students who laugh more earn more.
John Cleese