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
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.
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.
thinking people comedian
I think the hard thing for young comedians is that the majority of the young people in the audience out there don't have the wide range of references.
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.
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.
talking people literature
I learned a lot of things about literature talking to people at the publishing company. Did you know that about 90 percent of celebrity autobiographies are ghostwritten?
people found difficult
I've always found life quite difficult to explain to people or to myself.
laughter cutting people
I started to make harder jokes before anyone else did. And the producers would get anxious. They'd say, 'That's a little bit hard-edged, isn't it?' And I'd say, 'Let's just try it and see how the audience reacts. If they don't like it, let's cut it out.' And the audience roared with laughter, so I learned you could do this harder humor and people loved it.
mean people prudes
When people say 'I'm not a prude, but ...' what they mean is 'I am a prude, and ...'.
laughter people division
Laughter destroys any divisions between people.
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.