John Cleese Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.”

“If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'”

“Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste; it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person.”

“Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.”

“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?”

“England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.”

“I'm not saying Obama is right on everything. Of course not. He may be wrong on a number of things. But what I do know is that he behaves like a very, very sane man almost all the time.”

“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.”

“I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.”

“Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.”