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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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A satisfied customer. We should have him stuffed.
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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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Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.
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Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.
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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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The Americans are so much more positive. They are much more in love with success. In Britain, they're a fairly envious bunch, and they love it if you fail.
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The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.
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When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.
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I learned a lot of things about literature talking to people at the publishing company. Did you know that about 90 percent of celebrity autobiographies are ghostwritten?
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Life is a terminal disease, and it is sexually transmitted.
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Either people walk round dressed as chickens or they listen to Beethoven.
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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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This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.
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You have to create boundaries of space and then you have to create boundaries of time.
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