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 got soggy thighs. It must be dinner time.

If you're famous, you have to [be overly generous], otherwise people say, "Eric Idle came in and only left me $4." I always tip more than people expect.

You could write a joke in the pub at lunchtime and watch it performed on television that evening.

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.

People who are interested in money are really uninteresting people. They look like Donald Trump.

I used to have a house in London, but couldn't face 20 more years of St John's Wood in the rain.