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
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.
hotel run trying
Still trying to run a hotel and getting it wrong,
intelligent creative trying
If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time for considering alternative strategies... Do it in the 'closed' mode. But the moment the action is over, try to return to the 'open' mode... because in that mode we are the most aware, most receptive, most creative, and therefore at our most intelligent.
blue trying scratches
It's too difficult to start right from scratch and try and be funny out of the blue.
funny sarcastic trying
Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies
teacher light trying
I find the Alexander Technique very helpful in my work. Things happen without you trying. They get to be light and relaxed. You must get an Alexander teacher to show it to you.
contact four room stay together vaguely
We stay in contact vaguely because there are often little things to discuss, but I don't think we've been in a room together for four years.
wrote
At the start, Connie wrote the Polly and Sybil roles, and she and I wrote Basil together,
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.
buy good people producing wine
There's so many good people producing wine now, ... It's just amazing. There's so much on the shelves. You don't have to go buy those overpriced wines.
absolutely anyone appeal experts exquisite ought wines
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.
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.
interest relationship supremely
I had a very, very difficult relationship with my mother, who was supremely self-centred. She was hilariously self-centred. She did not really take interest in anything that didn't immediately affect her.