John Cleese Quotes

I'm not a person who likes to confront.

I believe that it's important to not just shy away from confrontation.

Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.

Rod's not very good at confrontations; he would rather walk away and avoid something rather than go into it.

I'm generally a people-pleaser so I get high anxiety from any sort of confrontation.

I don't have problems with people, because if I do, I address it.

If someone criticizes me, I strike back.

I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.

People take things too personally - I don't. If someone says something about me, I let it go. But unfortunately, everyone isn't like that. So I'm trying to be more diplomatic - but people always want a headline from me!

I think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly.

I think I am aggressive, I think I am critical when it's necessary.

So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.

Sometimes you get yourselves in situations where you don't realize people are actually testing you. People are actually provoking you.

If I have a problem with somebody, I go ahead and say what's on my mind.

Sometimes I wonder which is worse - confrontational people who are afraid of caring or caring people who are afraid of confrontation.

I should just keep me mouth shut, I just upset people.

I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful.

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them.

Talking back and being quite aggressive about stuff and not giving a care in the world about anyone. So it was more, I think, that way and I think that's what happened in that party when I stood in between two people.

I did not deal well with the politicians. I tend to tell people that when they are full of crap, that they are full of crap.

Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.

There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn't always the best way in.

In elementary school, we should teach nonviolent conflict resolution and healthy communication skills, which will help children cope with issues like rejection and sexuality later in life.

It's kinda cool seeing people having real fights with people they really know.