I think you often learn from failure. Success just teaches you how great you were, but in fact it's knowing what will fail that will help you to make the right choices.
Everybody has their own free choice to do what they want.
I've got soggy thighs. It must be dinner time.
The next step will be for the colonists on Mars to throw off the hand of the United States. There will be this wonderful historical irony. When the people on Mars write a declaration of independence saying, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident...', the US will be rather pissed off.
If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.
Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is Perth Pink. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is "beware". This is not a wine for drinking; this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.
The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?
Elvis saved my life when I was 13 or 14. He saved all our lives.
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.
Executives do not on the whole do well with comedy. They can't understand it, they can't read it, they can't spot it.
Monty Python only became valuable when it was sold to Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in America. They didn't pay much either, but the series has been shown repeatedly, which led to lucrative tapes, CDs and DVDs.
Even if you've written something for print, I think it's good to try [it] out on someone because it changes. You can think it's hilarious and they can tell you it's not.
I pay taxes in three countries, but can't vote in any of them.
Subversion is what I do.
I used to have a house in London, but couldn't face 20 more years of St John's Wood in the rain.
I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens.
I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.
I'm not really a celebrity; I'm just vestigially left over from doing stuff from before.
So it became in my mind a nine-carol service; an oratorio and orchestral concert all in one, but with narration. That's something I've learned about, because it's the story that keeps you in there. I wrote a libretto and I gave it to John Du Prez. We normally don't work in this fashion but I said off you go, and he went off for about three months. He brought me back this demo which blew my mind.
Reading Alan Zweibel makes me laugh out loud. And yet it is not a particularly funny name.
I don't necessarily know much about comedy, I don't spend a lot of time watching it. Mainly because all my life for about 50 years I've had comedy.
If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?
We never have that thought! The whole object is to bite off more than you can chew. John [Du Prez] always says, Eric thinks of something completely insane and insists we go in that direction. It's the correct way to look at things and the correct place to start, I think.
I get to be the first doctor in the family [because of the honorary degree they're giving me].
I just believe in a huge universe of billions of miles.
