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There's something about watching an animal that puts you in contact with where we came from and what we're still a part of.
John Cleese
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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 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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Life is a terminal disease, and it is sexually transmitted.
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Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.
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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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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 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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You have to create boundaries of space and then you have to create boundaries of time.
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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.
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There's nothing good on the television let's burn a witch. It must have been terribly exciting to live in those times.
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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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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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The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.
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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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Muslims, who have a completely different value system, come to the West, then they should accept that there are certain basic values in the West intrinsic to our culture. Just as I wouldn't suggest that any Westerner walk down the streets of Saudi Arabia in a bikini.
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I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding.
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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.
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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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Everything in comedy's got to be exactly right, which is why making a comedic film is kind of a difficult process, because, for most of the two years of shooting it and editing it and reshooting and all of that, it's not quite right. And it's only when you just at the end, you put the final polish on it, it becomes really funny again.
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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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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.
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