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John Cleese
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: October 27
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John Marwood Cleese
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I think there are so many activities going on, like mountaineering. You know, you would pay good money not to have to do that, and yet there are people racing out who want to spend their spare time clambering up rocks.
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Laughter destroys any divisions between people.
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If you really don't know where to start or if you're stuck, start generating random connections and allow your intuition to tell you if one might lead somewhere interesting.
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I think it takes a long time, as you get older, to realize just how crazy the world is, just how ridiculous it all is.
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When people quote sketches to me, half the time I don't know what they're talking about so I have to sort of go, aha, yes, oh yep, I remember that and lie my way out of it.
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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.
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years ago we would have been burned for this. Now what I am suggesting is that we've advanced.
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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.
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By watching the great, old comedians I picked up a few tricks about how to do physical comedy. And whenever I could learn something, I sort of added that to my repertoire.
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The Americans are just more enthusiastic and more likely to engage in hyperbole.
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I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.
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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.
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My views are heretical to people who believe in political correctness.
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Bureaucrats shouldn't be in charge 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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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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Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person.
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I would like to do my own eulogy, and then shoot myself and then get in the coffin.
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The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.
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When we hold a World Championship for a particular sport, we invite teams from other countries to play as well.
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