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Michael Palin decided to give ...

Michael Palin decided to give up on his considerable comedy talents to make those dreadfully tedious travel shows. Have you ever tried to watch one?

John Cleese 209 quotes

Telling people how to be creat...

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

John Cleese 209 quotes

Laughter destroys any division...

Laughter destroys any divisions between people.

John Cleese 209 quotes

I get bored easily. I've been ...

I get bored easily. I've been bored most of my life.

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

Because, as we all know, it's ...

Because, as we all know, it's easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it's also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we're not so sure about.

John Cleese 209 quotes

I can do anything I want, I'm ...

I can do anything I want, I'm eccentric!

John Cleese 209 quotes

What is absurd is not the teac...

What is absurd is not the teachings of the founders of religion, it's what followers subsequently make of it.

John Cleese 209 quotes

Nothing will stop you being cr...

Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

John Cleese 209 quotes

I think the problem with peopl...

I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.

John Cleese 209 quotes

Creativity is not a talent. It...

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

John Cleese 209 quotes

When you get to my age, and I'...

When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much.

John Cleese 209 quotes

Aping urbanity,
Oozing w...

Aping urbanity,
Oozing with vanity,
Plump as a manatee,
Faking humanity,
Intellectual inanity,
Journalistic calamity,
Fox Noise insanity,
You're a profanity,
Hannity

John Cleese 209 quotes

I was a terrible dancer. I dan...

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

John Cleese 209 quotes

Although I had good hand-eye c...

Although I had good hand-eye coordination, I was so tall and skinny and muscularly weak that I just was not well coordinated. But what I started to do quite early on was watch some of the great old silent comedians, like Laurel and Hardy and Chaplin, and then later on Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton.

John Cleese 209 quotes

I could take an umbrella and b...

I could take an umbrella and balance it on my chin or on my foot. And I just got interested in that kind of thing. And as I played games more and more and got stronger physically, I just became more coordinated.

John Cleese 209 quotes

By watching the great, old com...

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.

John Cleese 209 quotes

I've always found life quite d...

I've always found life quite difficult to explain to people or to myself.

John Cleese 209 quotes

The Americans are so much more...

The Americans are so much more positive. They are much more in love with success. In Britain, they're a fairly envious bunch, and they love it if you fail.

John Cleese 209 quotes

When people quote sketches to ...

When people quote sketches to me, half the time I don't know what they're talking about so I have to sort of go, aha, yes, oh yep, I remember that and lie my way out of it.

John Cleese 209 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....