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The Americans are just more enthusiastic and more likely to engage in hyperbole.
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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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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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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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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Students who laugh more- learn more. Students who laugh more earn more.
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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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Laughter is the best creative medicine.
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If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
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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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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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What's the bleedin' point?
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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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The World is insane. With tiny spots of sanity, here and there... Not the other way around!
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I could take an umbrella and balance it on my chin or on my foot. And I just got interested in that kind of thing. And as I played games more and more and got stronger physically, I just became more coordinated.
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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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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 have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.
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Either people walk round dressed as chickens or they listen to Beethoven.
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I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.
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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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My views are heretical to people who believe in political correctness.
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