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
animal contact stills
There's something about watching an animal that puts you in contact with where we came from and what we're still a part of.
real thinking ego
I think that the real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have a chance of experiencing something that is divine in nature.
rest-of-your-life doe finals
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 your final shot.
thinking rocks people
I think there are so many activities going on, like mountaineering. You know, you would pay good money not to have to do that, and yet there are people racing out who want to spend their spare time clambering up rocks.
people creative easy
Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.
people age world
When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much.
strong children years
Would you take a billion dollars, if as part of the deal the Earth were made uninhabitable a year after your death? ... well, of course not; you care about your friends, above all your children, any grandchildren. But ... what if the deal calls for the planet to be poisoned a thousand years later? We feel strong obligations to generations in the near future - should we not feel the same way about our children's great-grandchildren and generations beyond them?
thinking feels indignation
I think that I feel an indignation when I don't understand something.
sarcasm doctors needs
It's a plastic surgeon you need, not a doctor
journey air giving
Filming is like a long air journey: there's so much hanging around and boredom that they keep giving you food.
people serious solemn
Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn.
people rubber excited
Other people, you know, put a latex rubber on, you know, to become sexually excited. There's so much I don't understand.
stupid thinking ideas
I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.
music mistake creative
Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.