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
writing perfect want
I have a tendency sometimes to get too logical with what I'm writing, just because I want it to be kind of perfect.
wanted
What I've always wanted to do is be as funny as possible.
want eccentric rat-race
I can do anything I want, I'm eccentric!
want unselfish great-things
I don't want to have to start being unselfish again. The great thing about being on your own is you do what you damned well like.
thinking creative want
Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.
christmas want calgary
Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.
jail who-your-friends-are want
If you want to know who your friends are, have a major failure.
book writing want
I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.
games towers want
I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.
people want rich
I don't understand why very, very rich people want to have even more money than they've already got.
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.
wrote
At the start, Connie wrote the Polly and Sybil roles, and she and I wrote Basil together,
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.
hotel run trying
Still trying to run a hotel and getting it wrong,