Om kändisskap:
"The whole buissness of fame is quite odd, and I like talking about it because people think it must be wonderful to be famous and you know it's fine... but it doesn't solve the problems of life. [...] I'm getting a bit serious now but I'll tell you what I really think. I think that most of us are struggling to find real meaning in our lives, to find things that we think are very, very meaningful. And I think in current society there is such emphasis on celebrity that people feel that celebrities lives have more meaning than their own. I think that's complete bullshit! It's just that if you see lots and lots of people staring at someone, you think "well he must, that person they're staring at, must know something I don't know." It isn't true at all, it just means they're #2 banana in a sitcom."

Om att vara kändis:
"[...] and the other thing is that people, when you're famous, people come up and they say the same thing. They say "mr Cleese, I just have to tell you how much your work has meant to me over the years. And what a gift it is to bring laughter into the world and how much joy you've brought to me and my family in the last years" you see? And you really want to tell them to piss off, because... The first threehundred times somebody said that you thought it was terrific, but once you get to the fifteenthousand time... it's just the fact that the repetition just kind of robbs it of any sense of meaning. Remember when you were a kid and decided to say a word fifteen times? Kettle, kettle, kettle... and you suddenly think it's not really a word and it's, any kind of emense repetition robbs that..."

-John Cleese, intervju under the Montreal Comedy Festival 2006