English - Actor | October 27, 1939 -
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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If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'
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If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
TimeCreativeEnoughYouPlayWant
God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.
FatherGodYouPowerfulKnowRather
I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat.
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Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it.
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Sci-fi has never really been my bag. But I do believe in a lot of weird things these days, such as synchronicity. Quantum physics suggests it's possible, so why not?
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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.
TimeManSayingWrongKnowRight
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.
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A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.
ManSufferingWillUpAnythingGive
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.
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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.
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