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John Cleese
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: October 27
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John Marwood Cleese
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Sci-fi has never really been my bag. But I do believe in a lot of weird things these days, such as synchronicity. Quantum physics suggests it's possible, so why not?
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Either people walk round dressed as chickens or they listen to Beethoven.
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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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I think we're all born with a sense of humor. Creativity is another thing though.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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What is absurd is not the teachings of the founders of religion, it's what followers subsequently make of it.
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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.
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It's a plastic surgeon you need, not a doctor
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You have to create boundaries of space and then you have to create boundaries of time.
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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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I get bored easily. I've been bored most of my life.
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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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years ago we would have been burned for this. Now what I am suggesting is that we've advanced.
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I'm not sure what's going on in Britain. I don't know what's going on in London. Because London is no longer an English city, and that's how they got the Olympics. I mean, they said, We're the most cosmopolitan city on Earth, but it doesn't feel English.
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Ask yourself, When does this decision have to be taken? and having answered it, defer the decision until then, in order to give yourself maximum pondering time.
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