Nerves are always a big problem for me, which is why I loved doing American sitcoms. Because you know when you do… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
If you really don't know where to start or if you're stuck, start generating random connections and allow your intuition to tell… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
The Americans are so much more positive. They are much more in love with success. In Britain, they're a fairly envious bunch,… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time for considering alternative strategies... Do it in the… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Would you take a billion dollars, if as part of the deal the Earth were made uninhabitable a year after your death?… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
If I like chocolate it won't surprise you that I have a few chocolates in my fridge, but if you find out… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
The trouble with the British is that they are not interested in ideas. If Jesus came back today and offered to speak… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
If you wish to kill yourself but lack the courage to, I think a visit to Palmerston North will do the trick, — John Cleese Copy Share Image
The real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
I think that the real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds,… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies. — John Cleese Copy Share Image
I started to make harder jokes before anyone else did. And the producers would get anxious. They'd say, 'That's a little bit… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Once we've made a decision, we are efficient only if we go through with it decisively, undistracted by doubts about its correctness. — John Cleese Copy Share Image
If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you open to my ideas — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Nerves are always a big problem for me, which is why I loved doing American sitcoms. Because you know when you do the take… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
years ago we would have been burned for this. Now what I am suggesting is that we've advanced. — John Cleese Copy Share Image
I think that sometimes you do something that makes a small group of people laugh, which is all we were trying to do; we… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Loving your neighbour as much as yourself is practically bloody impossible? You might as well have a commandment that states,'Thou shalt fly'. — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play. — John Cleese Copy Share Image
England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are. — John Cleese Copy Share Image
I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires. — John Cleese Copy Share Image
I think the hard thing for young comedians is that the majority of the young people in the audience out there don't have the… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
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.… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
On movies, I like to involve the cast in the writing of the script. I like to have a rehearsal period, after which I… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
