John Cleese Life Quotations

Filming takes a lot out of you. It really does. It's immensely demanding, and you have to put the rest of your life in the icebox until you do your final shot.

The Americans all love 'The Holy Grail', and the English all love 'Life Of Brian', and I'm afraid on this one, I side with the English.

Life is a terminal disease, and it is sexually transmitted.

My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me.

If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'

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.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.