John Cleese Quotes

I would say that I began with a very edgy, very driven personality and after a sufficient amount of therapy over many, many years, I managed to become rather relaxed and happy.

John Cleese

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PersonalityHappySayBecomeEdgy

There are many examples in our history of overheated rhetoric leading to fear and prejudice and government overreach. My own grandfather, a sociologist, was dragged in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee. He said he wasn't a Communist and explained that American Negroes were patriots like everyone else.

Jeh Johnson

FearHistoryGovernmentAmerican

The first hundred thousand - that was hard to get, but afterwards, it was easy to make more.

John Jacob Astor

EasyMoreFirstHardGetThousand

We should get rid of the SAT as fast as we can. Look, there are bigger problems in society. This is not the biggest problem we have. But it's so easy to get rid of it. Right? Just pull the plug.

John Katzman

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To say that creative writing courses are all useless is almost as silly as saying all editors are useless. Writers of all levels can benefit from other instructive voices.

Matt Haig

CreativeWritingSayingSillySay

I think people are universal.

Ang Lee

PeopleThinkUniversalI Think

I plan on making my mark on the legacy of hip-hop, period, but also in Atlanta production because there's a lot of history there.

Metro Boomin

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I don't mind getting punched in the nose by a guy standing in front of me. It's getting stabbed in the back that I can't handle.

Mickey Rourke

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The only show I ever really wanted to do was 'SNL.' It was some sort of merging of my talent and my metabolism. It suited who I am and what I do really well, though whatever I was thinking it was, it kept mutating and growing. At first, I didn't even know that the cast would be the thing everybody talked about. We thought it would be the hosts.

Lorne Michaels

TalentI AmThinkingThoughtKnow

Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language's own means.

Joseph Brodsky

PoetryLanguageOwnBeatSeemsAble

That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do.

Dennis Eckersley

MeYearCareerChicagoMemorable

When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.

Bob Hope

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If we did not have the impulse and ability to believe in the impossible, we would not have religion, democracy, or marriage.

Anthony McCarten

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