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John Cleese
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: October 27
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John Marwood Cleese
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If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.
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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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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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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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God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.
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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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The Americans are just more enthusiastic and more likely to engage in hyperbole.
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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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The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.
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When I was in school, I was beaten every 30 minutes. It never did me any harm except for some psychological mal-adjustments and blurred vision.
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Laughter destroys any divisions between people.
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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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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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If you wish to kill yourself but lack the courage to, I think a visit to Palmerston North will do the trick.
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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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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 get bored easily. I've been bored most of my life.
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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.
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