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You Quotes by John Cleese
- God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.
- If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'
- If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
- You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
- 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.
- If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can…
- I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'
- Michael Palin decided to give up on his considerable comedy talents to make those dreadfully tedious travel shows. Have you ever tried to watch one?
- I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas…
- I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm…
- 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…
- Filming takes a lot out of you. It really does. It's immensely demanding, and you have to put the rest of your life in the…
- I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere…
- I think you can write very good comedy without a partner, but what I love about it, working with a partner, is that you get…
- When you've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know a specific joke,…
- 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…
More You Quotes
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange