I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.

I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.

I've always found bad films more enjoyable than good ones.

Monty Python paid me £20,000 to write, direct and assemble them - the cheapskates! I told them I'd never earned less in a year since leaving Cambridge. The first show sold out in 43 seconds and we ended up performing ten in total. We had no idea there would be such demand.

I'm not really a celebrity; I'm just vestigially left over from doing stuff from before.

I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.

The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?