The best Quotes by Carol Cleveland

The best Quotes by Carol Cleveland

Carol Cleveland (born 13 January 1942) is a British-American actress and comedian, particularly known for her work with Monty Python.

I loved every minute of Python and owe so much to them.

June 2014

We're all in our 70s now and even doing 10 shows, with lots of costume changes, is going to be exhausting. And the guys have far more to do than me, obviously. But I have a feeling it might not be the last Python project ever. I wouldn't be surprised if they did another film.

June 2014

They all welcomed me with open arms and immediately put my fears to rest. John Cleese was rather flirty; Michael Palin seemed rather shy; Terry Jones was very jolly; Eric Idle was a tiny bit aloof; Graham Chapman was very polite and Terry Gilliam was very loud and a bit manic.

John Cleese Eric Idle Michael Palin Terry Jones Terry Gilliam Graham Chapman

Then there was Michael Palin. Michael is the one who hasn't changed at all. I thought he was - and still is - the cutest of the bunch.

As the first series progressed I found it was John Cleese who I got on best with and who made me laugh the most. He was the one who would change the most during the course of Python.

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

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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.

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I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.

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A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

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

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He who laughs most, learns best.

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The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.

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Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.

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The use of the word "just" by an Australian means that whatever it is you have to do, it will not be easy, as in "Just pull that sword out of the stone" or "Just split that atom."

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Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.

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The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.

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One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.

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All I ask of food is that it doesn't harm me.

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Geography is the subject which holds the key to our future.

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It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London.

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If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

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I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar Square, less veiled towards the river.

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I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.

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London. The beating heart of England.

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No day of my life passes without someone saying the words "Monty Python" to me. It's not bad.

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We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.

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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

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What really alarms me about President Bush's "War on Terrorism" is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is "Terrorism" going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.

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We will definitely not burn the Koran, no. Not today, not ever.

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The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn't laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things.

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I'm cheerfully optimistic about life. Optimism is very important!

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I don't think you need religion.

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I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me... and marvel stupidly.

Terry Gilliam

Television and the media are everywhere and they are taking over so powerfully. They don't shut up for a second. So you are unable to think.

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I don't do drugs. I've got enough bizarre chemicals floating around in my head. I'm just naturally like this.

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Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.

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Gorillaz virtually changed my wife... sorry, I mean, life... no, actually, it was my wife.

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There are many people in the country today who, through no fault of their own, are sane. Some of them were born sane. Some of them became sane later in their lives.

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We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified.

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I hope I will have achieved something lasting.

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You know, Python should have won a Grammy for our musical work on the show.

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We come from nothing, we are going back to nothing - in the end what have we lost? Nothing!

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You know, you come from nothing, you're going back to nothing. What have you lost? Nothing!

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