John Cleese Quotes

I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

John Cleese

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 27, 1939

Topics

ChangePeopleThinkFriendsYouNew

If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?

Jim Hightower

SpeakYouNowMatterMattersOut

Jerry Orbach was the first person to take me to the Friars Club. It's a beautiful building, and you walk into these halls of comedic history and meet these old cats who could tell you a million stories about how things went down in New York City.

Jesse L. Martin

BeautifulHistoryWalkCatsNew York

Our small and peaceful country is threatened daily by covetous and bigoted big powers whose hunger for domination and control of other nations and their resources knows no bounds.

Robert Mugabe

DailyControlSmallPeacefulCountry

And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, think, they see black fiends in places, where there is no black object in sight without them.

Robert Boyle

ConfidenceBlackThinkPlacesSight

Life is funny, and that's why I celebrate it in my shows.

Loni Love

LifeFunnyCelebrateWhyShows

I have actually lost a couple of roles - film roles - because a director or producer thought I looked too much like George Costanza, and I could not get out of that box.

Jason Alexander

ThoughtToo MuchLostDirectorBox

When you criminalize something, only criminals can deal with it. When criminals deal with it, there's no recourse to law, so there's only recourse to violence.

Don Winslow

LawViolenceYouSomethingDeal

In the first decade of my life, I came to know and love God, as I was raised in a Christian home and community.

Chely Wright

LifeLoveHomeGodCommunityKnow

I often work and write in coffee shops, observing the baristas and eavesdropping on interesting conversations.

Christina Baker Kline

WorkCoffeeInterestingWriteOften

The state of Alabama can take my freedom, the state of Alabama can take my future, but the state of Alabama cannot take my joy.

Anthony Ray Hinton

FutureFreedomJoyAlabamaTake

From the neighborhoods that we grew up in, we had to learn how to deal with people. How to keep certain people at a distance, how to cut people off completely.

Prodigy

PeopleLearnDistanceUpCutOff

My father lost his leg in 1927 playing soccer. A kick broke his leg; gangrene set in. They sawed it off. So he didn't get what a lot of Irish immigrants got, which was a job on the Waterfront - he didn't get that.

Pete Hamill

FatherJobSoccerImmigrantsLost

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