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" I do pool exercises, like weightlifting but underwater. I walk, I swim... I'm pretty fit for an old bloke. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives? "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" You look just like you! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms. "

" I was thrilled to win a Tony in 2005 for 'Spamalot'. "

" 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. "

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

" My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough, but it got me to Cambridge - like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly. "

" Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that. "

" A website can be very time-intensive, but I'd love to have one where people can contribute to it - like invent islands and make their own flags, and their own laws. I think that'd be kind of fun. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "