328 Quotes by John Cleese

The English contribution to world cuisine – the chip.

That’s a lovely experience when you make an audience laugh. Then the nerves go away for a bit. And sometimes you do things then that you’ve never done before that are really funny.

English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it’s just as bad as it is anywhere.

But then acting is all about faking. We’re all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.

Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you’re intelligent above a certain minimal level.

You go in and meet the head of BBC One and get an assurance about not dumbing down. And then, of course a few months later, he’s been replaced by someone you haven’t met.

I have a tendency sometimes to get too logical with what I’m writing, just because I want it to be kind of perfect.

Sci-fi has never really been my bag. But I do believe in a lot of weird things these days, such as synchronicity. Quantum physics suggests it’s possible, so why not?

Only an obsessional procrastinator would cry, ‘Let’s run for our lives, but not till Wednesday afternoon.’ Back.