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
age bond fantasy nice
When you get to the age of 64 and you can't do one or two of the things that Bond does, it will be a nice little fantasy for me.
Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it.
almost behaves course man obama sane saying time
I'm not saying Obama is right on everything. Of course not. He may be wrong on a number of things. But what I do know is that he behaves like a very, very sane man almost all the time.
eels hovercrafts
My hovercraft is full of eels.
holy-grail done rhetorical-question
What have the Romans ever done for us?
significance
The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.
failing envious britain
The Americans are so much more positive. They are much more in love with success. In Britain, they're a fairly envious bunch, and they love it if you fail.
love-life holy-grail sides
The Americans all love 'The Holy Grail', and the English all love 'Life Of Brian', and I'm afraid on this one, I side with the English.
friendly television actors
I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.
wanted
What I've always wanted to do is be as funny as possible.
bananas
How to defend yourself against a banana
fake-people acting very-good
But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.
editing years two
Everything in comedy's got to be exactly right, which is why making a comedic film is kind of a difficult process, because, for most of the two years of shooting it and editing it and reshooting and all of that, it's not quite right. And it's only when you just at the end, you put the final polish on it, it becomes really funny again.
people trying
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 just trying to make each other laugh.