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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 interest in anything that didn't immediately affect her.
- John Cleese
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#Mother
#Relationship
#She
England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.
- John Cleese
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#Country
#Like
#Little
#More
The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.
- John Cleese
#Chip
#Contribution
#Cuisine
#World
Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!
- John Cleese
#Film
#Get
#Girl
#Going
#Me
I'm not saying Obama is right on everything. Of course not. He may be wrong on a number of things. But what I do know is that he behaves like a very, very sane man almost all the time.
- John Cleese
#Everything
#Know
#Man
#Time
#Wrong
I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.
- John Cleese
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#Beat
#Lost
#Now
#Sports
I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing.
- John Cleese
#Christmas
#Dinner
#Family
#Tell
#Walking
But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.
- John Cleese
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#Acting
#Competence
#Good
#Things
When you've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know a specific joke, you can pretty much guess what it's going to be.
- John Cleese
#Comedy
#Doing
#Joke
#Jokes
#Know
If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.
- John Cleese
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#Ideas
#Laugh
#Me
#Truth
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 and have friends. That's not enough any more, and I think that is absolutely tragic - and I'm not exaggerating - that people feel like a decent, ordinary, fun life is no longer enough.
- John Cleese
#Family
#Feel
#Fun
#Life
#Respect
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.
- John Cleese
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#Me
#Ought
#Tell
#Think
The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.
- John Cleese
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#Creative People
#People
#Play
The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.
- John Cleese
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#Better
#Good
#Long
#Way
I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.
- John Cleese
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#Choice
#Made
#Necessary
#Poor
Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.
- John Cleese
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#Best
#Comedy
#Works
I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.
- John Cleese
#Actor
#Death
#Great
#Sad
#Television
You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
- John Cleese
#About
#Change
#Life
#People
#Tell
A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.
- John Cleese
#Anything
#Man
#Suffering
#Up
#Will
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
- John Cleese
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#Enough
#Play
#Time
#Want
A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.
- John Cleese
#About
#Laughter
#People
#True
#Wonderful
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
- John Cleese
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#Business
#Easy
#Find
#Me
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
- John Cleese
#Food
#God
#Meat
#Us
#Why
He who laughs most, learns best.
- John Cleese
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#Education
#He
#Most
#Who
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