86 quotes found
"What Jesus blatantly fails to appreciate is that it's the meek who are the problem."
"Now, you listen here: 'e's not the Messiah, 'e's a very naughty boy! Now go away!"
"So, there you are! I might have known it would end up like this. To think of all the love and affection I've wasted on you. Well, if that's how you treat your poor old mother in the autumn years of her life, all I can say is, "Go ahead. Be crucified. See if I care." [storms off] I might have known it would end up like this. Sex, sex. That's all young people are interested in nowadays. I don't know what the world's coming to."
"And there shall in that time be rumours of things going astray, and there will be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia work base, that has an attachment…at this time, a friend shall lose his friend’s hammer and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before around eight o’clock..."
"A man shall strike his donkey."
"... And the beast shall be huge and black, and the eyes thereof red with the blood of living creatures, and the whore of Babylon shall ride forth on a three-headed serpent, and throughout the lands, there'll be a great rubbing of parts. Yeeah..."
"Cheer up, Brian. You know what they say: Some things in life are bad. They can really make you mad. Other things just make you swear and curse. When you're chewing on life's gristle, Don't grumble. Give a whistle. And this'll help things turn out for the best. And... [music]"
"Oh, what I wouldn't give to be spat at in the face. I sometimes hang awake at night dreaming of being spat at in the face."
"You lucky bastards! You lucky, jammy bastards!"
"A motion picture destined to offend nearly two thirds of the civilized world. And severely annoy the other third."
"See the movie that's controversial, sacrilegious, and blasphemous. But if that's not playing, see The Life of Brian."
"Honk if you love Brian."
"The film that is so funny it was banned in Norway."
"He wasn't the messiah. He was a very naughty boy."
"Just when you thought you were saved..."
"Makes Ben-Hur look like an epic."
"Nothing can alter the fact that if you were to make a list of all the greatest works of art in all fields and all the greatest contributors to those works of art, you would find that this scene of the incarnation, the story of the incarnation, has played the largest part. Now, in our 20th century this film produces a sort of graffiti version of it. And I don't think in the eyes of posterity it will have a very distinguished place."
"Four hundred years ago, we would have been burnt for this film. Now, I'm suggesting that we've made an advance."
"I've always thought that Life of Brian was the best thing Python did by quite a long shot."
"Graham Chapman:"
"John Cleese:"
"Terry Gilliam:"
"Eric Idle:"
"Terry Jones:"
"Michael Palin:"
"Kenneth Colley:"
"Sue Jones-Davies"
"Hermit, before the opening titles: 'It's..."
"Announcer: And now for something completely different."
"The BBC were constantly replacing us with such important things as show jumping. They didn't like us very much at all."
"Five [episodes] are definitely cringe-worthy … on balance, and I suppose another five or so [are] a little below par, and about a third of the rest are pretty good. And the rest: really, really, quite good."
"Graham Chapman"
"John Cleese"
"Terry Gilliam"
"Terry Jones"
"Michael Palin"
"Carol Cleveland"
"I have suffered for my music. Now it's your turn."
"How sweet to be an idiot At my back With no fear of attack As much retaliation as a toy."
"A graffiti writing is shown: "MAKE TEA, NOT LOVE""
"Graham Chapman: Brother, Police Officer, Official # 1, Man at Sidewalk, Student # 1, Colonel, Officer # 2, Sir Edward Ross, Singer, Restaurant Guest, Man Who Writes Complaint, Twit # 5"
"John Cleese: "And now for something..." announcer, Hungarian Man # 1, Instructor, Military Trainee, Sir George Head, Officer # 3, Flasher Woman # 2, Colonel # 3, Voice of animated apologizing man, Mr. Praline, Singer, Mungo the Cook, Office Worker # 2, Vocational Guidance Councelor, Twit # 1, Parrot owner."
"Eric Idle: Official # 2, Marriage Guidance Counselor, Arthur Nudge, Student # 4, Narrator, Military Trainee, Flasher Woman # 1, Emcee # 2, Colonel # 2, Voice of Old Man Reader, Singer, Manager, Shop Owner, Office Worker # 1, Mrs. Davies, Twit # 2."
"Terry Jones: Emcee, Tobacconist, Judge, Hungarian # 2, Man at Bar, Student # 2, Grannie, Biker Man, Military Trainee, Flasher, Ken Ewing, Milkman, Soldier, Singer, Gaston the waiter, Nude Organist, Brian, Nigel "Incubator" Jones"
"Michael Palin: Man With Tape Recorder Up His Nose, Arthur Pewtey, Student # 3, Grannie, Military Trainee, "My Place" Man, voice of Shrill Petrol Man, Seduced Milkman, Ernest Scribbler, Soldier, Pet Shop Owner, Lumberjack, Head Waiter, Herbert Anchovy, Twit # 3"
"Carol Cleveland: Dierdre Pewtey, Gilliam's voice, Story Teller, Flasher Woman # 3, Chapman's Wife in Restaurant, Brian's Wife"
"Terry Gilliam: Man with Woman's voice"
"Connie Booth: The lumberjack's best girl"
"In Mercia and the two Anglias - plague, with a 50% chance of pestilence and famine coming out of the Northwest at twelve miles per hour."
"This man was Arthur, King of the Britons. For this... was... England!"
"[After the ensemble sings about Finland] I said, ENGLAND!"
"Defeat at the castle in Act One seems to have utterly disheartened King Arthur. The ferocity of the French taunting took him completely by surprise."
"God be praised, we have a quest!"
"Stand aside, Mrs. Galahad, while the Lady of the Lake, and her Laker Girls, welcome your son to my army!"
"Tim Curry - King Arthur"
"Hank Azaria - Sir Lancelot, French Taunter, Knight of Ni, Tim the Enchanter"
"David Hyde Pierce - Sir Robin, Guard 1, Brother Maynard"
"Christian Borle - Historian, Not Dead Fred, French Guard, Minstrel, Prince Herbert"
"Michael McGrath - Mayor, Patsy, Guard 2"
"Sara Ramirez - The Lady of the Lake"
"Steve Rosen - Dennis' mother, Sir Bedevere, Concorde"
"Christopher Sieber - Sir Dennis Galahad, The Black Knight, Prince Herbert's father"
"Makes Ben Hur look like an Epic!"
"Sets The Cinema Back 900 Years!"
"And now! At Last! Another film completely different from some of the other films which aren't quite the same as this one is."
"Connie Booth:"
"Carol Cleveland:"
"Neil Innes:"
"I was a great Lucille Ball fan. I did actually want to be Lucille Ball. Or Marilyn Monroe. I didn't care which."
"When [the Pythons] discovered that I had a flair for comedy, the roles got more interesting. Michael … was always the one [to recommend me]; I think if it hadn't been for Michael, I probably always would have just been the glamour stooge."
"… I had to read [the script for the first episode of Flying Circus] several times in order to try and make some sense of it. The sketches ended strangely or sometimes didn't seem to end at all! Others had an odd beginning too. It certainly wasn't the sort of humour I was used to and I wasn't quite sure what to make of it all."
"One day, when we were doing a read-through, the boys realised they had forgotten to cast another male to be in a jungle sketch. Rather than make an urgent phone call, Michael suggested that I do it instead. It turned out to be one of my most enjoyable sketches, because it was so silly! I'm dressed exactly as they are, in khaki shorts and a pith helmet, with a huge moustache and speaking in a very low gravelly voice. There was no disguising I'm a female though, as I still have my lipstick and false eyelashes on. After that they often put me in men's roles!"
"Carol … was the unsung heroine because she was so spot on. We never had to tell her how to play a scene, she just had a Python way of thinking about it."
"We didn't know who she was when we started the series. John Howard Davies cast her and we all liked her, so from then on, we used her for all but the more upper-class roles. We simply liked what she did; she was very easy to get along with, she could be very silly when required and she didn't have an excessive sense of dignity."