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John Cleese Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Comedy Doing You Know Forty Jokes

To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.

Ann Brashares

Yourself World Story Think You Open

When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society.

Michael Bloomberg

Community Society Feel You Look

My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with her, teaching her to tie her shoelaces on her own, drilling multiplication tables with Cindy, practicing piano every day with her. No one expected Cindy to get a Ph.D.! But my mom wanted her to be the best she could be, within her limits.

Amy Chua

Mother Best Day Mom Sister Limits

Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.

Sigourney Weaver

Saying Wish Goal Guilty Say Try

Sometimes if you can tell one personal story with a lot of sincerity, it can become a universal story.

Rithy Panh

Story You Sometimes Personal Become

I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.

Ron Reagan

Party One Thing Who Join Members

To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast. You go over the initial script with them and listen to the way they talk. Then you try to do a rewrite to accommodate them.

Dito Montiel

Me Bible You Go Way Talk

In football, any team can still improve, in every sense.

David Silva

Football Team Improve Sense Still

History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.

David Weinberger

History Important Changes Events Us

Everyone should see 'A Nightmare Before Christmas,' hear 'London Calling,' and read 'Great Expectations.'

Brian Fallon

Great Expectations Christmas London

It was the corner sweet-shop in Australia that first piqued my interest in interior design. I went into this space with a mixture of apprehension and excitement as a child. It was filled, floor to ceiling, with the most incredible rounded glass bowls filled to the brim with bonbons, buttons, and sweets.

Anouska Hempel

Space Child Design Australia Glass

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

Alice Walker

Money Woman Man People Slavery You