Top 54 Quotes by John Cleese

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 have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat.

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

In Britain, girls seem to be either bright or attractive. In America, that's not the case. They're both.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

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?

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

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.