John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it.

I don't like animation. I hate animation, actually.

I don't necessarily know much about comedy, I don't spend a lot of time watching it. Mainly because all my life for about 50 years I've had comedy.

They're a typical Hollywood audience. All the kids are on drugs and all the adults are on roller skates.

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.

You could feel the place going crazy because we hadn't been on stage together for maybe 35 years and the audience could just feel us in the darkness come on and they went nuts. It made the little hairs stand up on the back of my neck and we sang Sit on My Face, which I thought was wonderfully appropriate for George's memorial, and then we bowed and we showed our bare asses.

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