Aping urbanity, John Cleese More Quotes by John Cleese More Quotes From John Cleese British press think entirely in clichés, and when they do come across creative work, they think that it must be based on something, because they don't realize that you can create things that aren't based on things. John Cleese realizing creative thinking 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. John Cleese lovely going-away laughing 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 talking lying people The writing is the most important bit, and performing it is just closing the circle because I'm less likely to screw it up than anyone else. John Cleese circles important writing I've always called myself a writer/performer, not an actor because I basically write what I perform. John Cleese performers actors writing 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 comedian eye hands The British fans are liable to suddenly be talking to you about something that you don't know how you got into the conversation. I think it's something to do with the fact that they've been watching you for so many years sort of you telling your story. John Cleese talking years thinking 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 actors writing giving Other people, you know, put a latex rubber on, you know, to become sexually excited. There's so much I don't understand. John Cleese rubber excited people Everything in comedy's got to be exactly right, which is why making a comedic film is kind of a difficult process, because, for most of the two years of shooting it and editing it and reshooting and all of that, it's not quite right. And it's only when you just at the end, you put the final polish on it, it becomes really funny again. John Cleese editing two years I think that sometimes you do something that makes a small group of people laugh, which is all we were trying to do; we were just trying to make each other laugh. John Cleese laugh you sometimes people Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? John Cleese
