"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…"

"… I had to read [the script for the first episode of Flying Circus] several times in order to try and make some sense…"

"One day, when we were doing a read-through, the boys realised they had forgotten to cast another male to be in a jung…"

"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…"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"

"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"

"I don't really know how to act, I kind of wanted to somehow make it real, and one of the ways I've always thought mak…"

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"

"When men live in small communities, ... they cannot avoid personal participation in some public functions. So it was …"