John Cleese is one of the funniest actors in the long history of acting, especially as Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers. Here are some quotations from Cleese that are more profound than funny:
"If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play."
"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."
"If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth."
"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."
