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Laughter destroys any divisio...

Laughter destroys any divisions between people.

John Cleese 209 quotes

The one thing I remember abou...

The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual. Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.

John Cleese 209 quotes

I think we're all born with a...

I think we're all born with a sense of humor. Creativity is another thing though.

John Cleese 209 quotes

I think it takes a long time,...

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.

John Cleese 209 quotes

It’s only on the brink that p...

It’s only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve.

John Cleese 209 quotes

We all operate in two contras...

We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory, more democratic, more playful and more humorous. The closed mode is the tighter, more rigid, more hierarchical, more tunnel-visioned. Most people, unfortunately spend most of their time in the closed mode.

John Cleese 209 quotes

...when you collaborate with ...

...when you collaborate with someone else on something creative, you get to places that you would never get to on your own. The way an idea builds as it careens back and forth between good writers is so unpredictable. Sometimes it depends on people misunderstanding each other, and that's why I don't think there's any such thing as a mistake in the creative process. You never know where it might lead.

John Cleese 209 quotes

Telling people how to be crea...

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

John Cleese 209 quotes

This is the extraordinary thi...

This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.

John Cleese 209 quotes

The main evolutionary signifi...

The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.

John Cleese 209 quotes

We all die at the end, but do...

We all die at the end, but does that nullify everything? Would most people rather say, "I wish I hadn't been born?" Once you're born you'll have to die, now is that funny or sad?

John Cleese 209 quotes

The open mode is a mood in wh...

The open mode is a mood in which curiosity for its own sake can operate, because we're not under pressure to get a specific thing done properly. We can play.

John Cleese 209 quotes

On movies, I like to involve ...

On movies, I like to involve the cast in the writing of the script. I like to have a rehearsal period, after which I do the last draft, which gives me a chance to incorporate anything the actors have come up with during the rehearsal period, so I'm very inclusive as a writer.

John Cleese 209 quotes

A lot of humour is about just...

A lot of humour is about just enjoying life and spontaneity and because you make a joke that puts somebody down - we're always teasing each other. It's with affection. It's nasty teasing that we - not all teasing; nasty teasing you cut out.

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I don't understand why very, ...

I don't understand why very, very rich people want to have even more money than they've already got.

John Cleese 209 quotes

You can lead a horse to water...

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him enter regional distribution codes in data field 97 to facilitate regression analysis on the back end.

John Cleese 209 quotes

I was a terrible dancer. I da...

I was a terrible dancer. I dance like an Englishman.

John Cleese 209 quotes

Either people walk round dres...

Either people walk round dressed as chickens or they listen to Beethoven.

John Cleese 209 quotes

I can never do better than 'F...

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.

John Cleese 209 quotes

Loving your neighbour as much...

Loving your neighbour as much as yourself is practically bloody impossible? You might as well have a commandment that states,'Thou shalt fly'.

John Cleese 209 quotes

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