years ago we would have been burned for this. Now what I am suggesting is that we've advanced. — 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
When you've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
The British fans are liable to suddenly be talking to you about something that you don't know how you got into the… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Everything in comedy's got to be exactly right, which is why making a comedic film is kind of a difficult process, because,… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
My mum died about three years ago at the age of 101, and just towards the end, as she began to run… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
I would say that I began with a very edgy, very driven personality and after a sufficient amount of therapy over many,… — 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
