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

You look just like you!

We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.

No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs, that's what the musical does best.

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 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.

I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.

I'm more surprised than anyone that 'Spamalot's done so well. You can never predict what's going to be a hit.

You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that's all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam's the same. All of us together make one completely insane person.

I won't read scripts because I have a limited amount of time. Why should I help other people do lame stuff when I can just go out and put on lame stuff of my own?

I have been very blessed in my life and rewarded with good friends and good health. I am grateful and happy to be able to share this.

I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man.

I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens.

Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.

Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.

Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it.

I like being a foreigner. For me, to live in California is very pleasant - I'm more comfortable not feeling a part of everything, not feeling responsible for the government or the roads or the health system.

It's such fun to take a lot of people and create something silly.

The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.

I love stage work. The thing about plays is that they're perfectible. With film, you shoot that take and maybe another. During 'Spamalot,' I rewrote Act II three times.

At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed to use it on 'Fox News'.

I never think in terms of target audience. I try to write what makes me laugh, so I'm the target audience. I guess I just hope there's another person in America like me.

I'm drawn to things that aren't particularly popular at the time. I don't know why.

It just seems to me that there's no particular reason comedy albums should be dead. There's a lot to laugh at. We have very funny people, still.

People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.

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