328 Quotes by John Cleese

I think it takes a long time, as you get older, to realize just how crazy the world is, just how ridiculous it all is.

The Americans are just more enthusiastic and more likely to engage in hyperbole.

By watching the great, old comedians I picked up a few tricks about how to do physical comedy. And whenever I could learn something, I sort of added that to my repertoire.

British press think entirely in clichés, and when they do come across creative work, they think that it must be based on something, because they don't realize that you can create things that aren't based on things.

It's too difficult to start right from scratch and try and be funny out of the blue.

What I've always wanted to do is be as funny as possible.

The World is insane. With tiny spots of sanity, here and there... Not the other way around!

No hope for planet at all. But I will be gone before the planet is gone, so it's your problem.

When you've only got few days of rehearsal before you're in the studio, it's wonderful to start off with people that you have good, friendly, tolerable relationships to start with, for the simple reason that you don't have to spend 24 hours figuring out how sensitive they are, and can you give them a line reading, or how do you have to give them direction.