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54 quotes by John Cleese

John Marwood Cleese (/ˈkliːz/; born 27 October 1939) is 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...
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I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

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I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

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Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.

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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 else and try again.... →

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My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this... →

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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 icebox until you do... →

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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 to places you'd never... →

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Now most people do not want an ordinary life in which they do a job well, earn the respect of their collaborators and competitors, bring up a family... →

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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... →

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It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend 2 or 3 years obsessing... →

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I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

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The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

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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.

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