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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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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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Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!
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When you've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know a specific joke, you can pretty much guess what it's going to be.
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No hope for planet at all. But I will be gone before the planet is gone, so it's your problem.
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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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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'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.
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Laughter is the best creative medicine.
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Now most people do not want an ordinary life in which they do a job well, earn the respect of their collaborators and competitors, bring up a family and have friends. That's not enough any more, and I think that is absolutely tragic - and I'm not exaggerating - that people feel like a decent, ordinary, fun life is no longer enough.
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We need to be in the open mode when we are pondering a problem, but, once we come up with a solution, we must then switch to the closed mode to implement it.
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I have a tendency sometimes to get too logical with what I'm writing, just because I want it to be kind of perfect.
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The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.
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I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.
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It’s only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve.
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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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Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.
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The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats.
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Loving your neighbour as much as yourself is practically bloody impossible? You might as well have a commandment that states,'Thou shalt fly'.
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I think we're all born with a sense of humor. Creativity is another thing though.
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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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