John Cleese
John Cleese
John Marwood Cleeseis an English actor, comedian, writer, and film producer. He achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report. In the late 1960s, he co-founded Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus and the four Monty Python films: And Now for Something Completely Different, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth27 October 1939
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If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
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The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.
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I've always called myself a writer/performer, not an actor because I basically write what I perform.
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We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.
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The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual. Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.
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The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.
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A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.
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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 play, or you're not.
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Tension is wonderful for making people laugh.
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To be creative you must create a space for yourself where you can be undisturbed... separate from everyday concerns.
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Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies
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We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory, more democratic, more playful and more humorous. The closed mode is the tighter, more rigid, more hierarchical, more tunnel-visioned. Most people, unfortunately spend most of their time in the closed mode.
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The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.
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You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.