John Cleese Want Quotations

I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

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

I don't understand why very, very rich people want to have even more money than they've already got.

If you want to know who your friends are, have a major failure.

Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.

I don't want to have to start being unselfish again. The great thing about being on your own is you do what you damned well like.

I can do anything I want, I'm eccentric!

I have a tendency sometimes to get too logical with what I'm writing, just because I want it to be kind of perfect.