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John Cleese
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: October 27
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Political correctness is a bit like a granny, a maiden aunt arriving at a party when everyone's having a good time. And she comes in, they all start sort of buttoning up and becoming self-conscious and behaving properly and then when she leaves, you can have fun again.
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There are 3 basic differences between we British and you Americans. One, we speak English, and you don't. Two, when we have a World Championship, we invite teams from other nations. Three, when you meet the British head of State, you only have to get down on one knee.
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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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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.
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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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Filming is like a long air journey: there's so much hanging around and boredom that they keep giving you food.
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I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.
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The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.
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I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn't know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret.
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When you do comedy in front of an audience, they are the ones who tell you whether it's funny or not and which bits are funny and which bits need to be fixed.
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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'm very odd 'cause I think there's more than just a materialist planet, a materialist, reductionist planet.
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I think we're all born with a sense of humor. Creativity is another thing though.
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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?
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If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
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When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.
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As Daniel Levitin writes, our brain is a giant pattern detector. If we read something that coincides with what we already believe we're more likely to give it credence, while the opposite is not true.
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Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.
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Aping urbanity, Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee, Faking humanity, Intellectual inanity, Journalistic calamity, Fox Noise insanity, You're a profanity, Hannity.
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The World is insane. With tiny spots of sanity, here and there... Not the other way around!
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