John Cleese Quotes

I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north Lo...

You do realize as you grow older that almost nobody knows what they are talking about.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes natu...

Now most people do not want an ordinary life in which they do a job well, earn the respect of their ...

Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important...

Michael Palin decided to give up on his considerable comedy talents to make those dreadfully tedious...

Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important...

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

Graham Chapman, co-author of the "Parrot Sketch", is no more. He has ceased to be. Bereft of life, h...

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play

One of our professors described a lecture as 'a mystical process by which the notes on the pad of th...

It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand. ~ Brian Stimpson, ...

He who laughs most, learns best

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if...

I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging ...

The idea that you have to be protected from any kind of uncomfortable emotion is what I absolutely d...

Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.

The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.

This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the sub...

It seemed as though he had a fundamental belief that the merit of his argument depended on the stren...

The problem was that I carried around with me a tendency to feel that other people’s respect for me ...

Terry Gilliam has spoken scathingly about my preference for physical comfort. I have come to the con...

I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's lik...

He who laughs most, learns best.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.