John Cleese Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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The arts are the one thing that appeal right across all forms of politics, race, creed - everything.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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I miss playing with Miles. I did play with him a little while before he left the planet, but even at that time I longed to maybe do some things together.

Sonny Rollins

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Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.

Tom Rachman

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I currently live in the Plaza in New York and I love it - all that history, all those interesting stories.

Tommy Hilfiger

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Congress did the right thing with Ebola. They funded us to protect Americans and keep us safer.

Tom Frieden

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Now, in the Liefeld household, I don't tend to share the fact that I created Deadpool with my kids, so when all the video games started coming out where Wade was at the center of them, I couldn't help but smile.

Rob Liefeld

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Hamilton had a certain social versatility, and in a way, that is understandable because he's someone who rises up from the lowest rungs of society and then scales the top. And he gets to know people from every strata along the way.

Ron Chernow

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I don't touch anything I don't deserve.

Romelu Lukaku

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Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.

Michelle Rodriguez

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One of my problems is I am getting so mature that I have to pick up a TV and toss it through the coffee table just to remind people of who I am. I want to go ranting and screaming into the grave.

Michael O'Donoghue

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You reach a point when you say to yourself, 'Do I want to keep doing this?' There are other things on my plate I want to do - I've been writing a play; I've been neglecting my standup.

Joy Behar

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Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines.

Dev Patel

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