When people say 'I'm not a prude, but ...' what they mean is 'I am a prude, and ...'. John Cleese More Quotes by John Cleese More Quotes From John Cleese I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you're just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy. John Cleese distance laughter humor My mum died about three years ago at the age of 101, and just towards the end, as she began to run out of energy, she did actually stop trying to tell me what to do most of the time. John Cleese age running years Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas. John Cleese calgary christmas want 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 wish doe people I think that I feel an indignation when I don't understand something. John Cleese indignation feels thinking I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit. John Cleese long people thinking I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London. John Cleese london nuts sports I think there are so many activities going on, like mountaineering. You know, you would pay good money not to have to do that, and yet there are people racing out who want to spend their spare time clambering up rocks. John Cleese rocks people thinking Naturally, people's image is of a performer, but the reality of it is the writing for me has always been the most important thing and the most rewarding thing. John Cleese writing reality people Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it. John Cleese wells writing past Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn. John Cleese solemn serious people I was a terrible dancer. I dance like an Englishman. John Cleese englishmen dancer terrible I would say that I began with a very edgy, very driven personality and after a sufficient amount of therapy over many, many years, I managed to become rather relaxed and happy. John Cleese driven personality years 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? John Cleese bags why-not believe I have a tendency sometimes to get too logical with what I'm writing, just because I want it to be kind of perfect. John Cleese perfect want writing You can't make Christ funny. He's self-aware, he's too flexible within the situation. It's rigidity, it's when the ego takes over and the behavior becomes inappropriate that it becomes funny. John Cleese inappropriate ego self The Americans are just more enthusiastic and more likely to engage in hyperbole. John Cleese hyperbole enthusiastic 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. John Cleese bad-in-the-world television world 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. John Cleese umpires growing-up men There's something about watching an animal that puts you in contact with where we came from and what we're still a part of. John Cleese contact stills animal
