John Cleese Quotes

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• Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn.
• Laughter is a force for democracy.
• It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand. ~ Brian Stimpson, Clockwise
• Life is a terminal disease, and it is sexually transmitted.
• Your Mother was A Hamster and you Father Smelled of elder berries
• Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent,…
• I can do anything I want, I'm eccentric!
• Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.
• I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.
• Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.
• 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…
• To be creative you must create a space for yourself where you can be undisturbed... separate from everyday concerns.
• I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when…
• Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.
• I think that sometimes you do something that makes a small group of people laugh, which is all we were trying to do; we were…
• Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it.
• Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!

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