John Cleese

John Marwood Cleese (born October 27, 1939 in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England) is an English comedian and actor best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for co-writing the TV series Fawlty Towers in which he played Basil Fawlty. He won the TV Times award for Funniest Man On TV - 1978 / 1979.

3 Quotes

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

— John Cleese

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

— John Cleese

Basil Fawlty to Manuel: Oh, I could spend the rest of my life having this conversation—look—please try to understand before one of us dies.

— John Cleese