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

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

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

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I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me... and marvel stupidly.

Terry Gilliam

Television and the media are everywhere and they are taking over so powerfully. They don't shut up for a second. So you are unable to think.

Terry Gilliam - Terry Gilliam's flying circus (2006)

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I don't do drugs. I've got enough bizarre chemicals floating around in my head. I'm just naturally like this.

Terry Gilliam - Mai 1998

Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.

Terry Gilliam

Gorillaz virtually changed my wife... sorry, I mean, life... no, actually, it was my wife.

Terry Gilliam

I just like the fact I can make a film which might give comfort to some people who think they are the only crazy person in the world and suddenly they see there are two crazy people in the world.

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Fantasy isn't just a jolly escape: It's an escape, but into something far more extreme than reality, or normality. It's where things are more beautiful and more wondrous and more terrifying.

Terry Gilliam

In the end, people have to learn to live together. That is what I didn't like about America - it is so homogeneous. I like places where there are people who are different culturally, physically, in every way. And I like to see how they succeed in living together.

Terry Gilliam - Terry Gilliam's flying circus (2006)

We took up the offer with the BBC, and that was Monty Python's Flying Circus. I didn't have to submit my ideas to the group. I used to turn up on the days we recorded with a can of film under my arm, and in it went.

Terry Gilliam

Monty Python's Flying Circus

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.

Terry Gilliam

Hyperbole is something I'd better avoid.

Terry Gilliam

I want this on my tombstone:
Here lies Terry Gilliam
RIP
He giggled in awe.

Terry Gilliam

You know, you come from nothing, you're going back to nothing. What have you lost? Nothing!

Monty Python’s Life of Brian

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Frenchman: "You empty-headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"
Sir Galahad: "Is there someone else up there we can talk to?"
Frenchman: "No! Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!"

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Ah, I see you have the machine that goes "ping!". This is my favourite. You see, we lease this back from the company we sold it to - that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.

Hospital Administrator in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life - Part I: The Miracle of Birth

We find your American beer like making love in a canoe. It's f-ing close to water.

Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl

What's brown and sounds like a bell? Dung!

Monty Python's Flying Circus

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

John Cleese

The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.

Michael Palin

I loved every minute of Python and owe so much to them.

Carol Cleveland - June 2014

What really alarms me about President Bush's "War on Terrorism" is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is "Terrorism" going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.

Terry Jones

There are many people in the country today who, through no fault of their own, are sane. Some of them were born sane. Some of them became sane later in their lives.

Graham Chapman

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Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

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