John Cleese Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The Americans all love 'The Holy Grail', and the English all love 'Life Of Brian', and I'm afraid on this one, I side with the English.”

“You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.”

“The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.”

“I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.”

“I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.”

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

“A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.”

“For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.”

“Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.”

“I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.”