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When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.
John Cleese



Biography
Author Profession: Actor
Nationality: English
Born: October 27, 1939

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Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!
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If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'
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A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.
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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
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I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.
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The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.
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It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend 2 or 3 years obsessing about the video game in exactly the same way that they'd be obsessing about the movie if they were working on that.
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