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I was a terrible dancer. I dance like an Englishman.
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John Cleese
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: October 27
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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.
John Cleese
The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.
John Cleese
The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual. Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.
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If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time for considering alternative strategies... Do it in the 'closed' mode. But the moment the action is over, try to return to the 'open' mode... because in that mode we are the most aware, most receptive, most creative, and therefore at our most intelligent.
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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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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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What's the bleedin' point?
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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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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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Sense of humor is so much more subjective than anyone believes.
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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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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.
John Cleese
Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.
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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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Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.
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I think that the real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have a chance of experiencing something that is divine in nature.
John Cleese
Your Mother was A Hamster and you Father Smelled of elder berries.
John Cleese
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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Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!
John Cleese
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
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