The best Quotes by Terry Gilliam

Terry Gilliam's flying circus (2006)

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

Mai 1998

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

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

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.

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.

Imagination

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'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.

Monty Python's Flying Circus

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

Minnesota

Hyperbole is something I'd better avoid.

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

Quotes about Terry Gilliam

They all welcomed me with open arms and immediately put my fears to rest. John Cleese was rather flirty; Michael Palin seemed rather shy; Terry Jones was very jolly; Eric Idle was a tiny bit aloof; Graham Chapman was very polite and Terry Gilliam was very loud and a bit manic.

Carol Cleveland

John Cleese Eric Idle Michael Palin Terry Jones Graham Chapman

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

Eric Idle

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

Eric Idle

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

Eric Idle

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

Eric Idle

You look just like you!

Eric Idle

Ah, devil ether. It makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel. Total loss of all basic motor function. Blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue. The mind recoils in horror, unable to communicate with the spinal column.

Raoul Duke in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Drugs

We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.

Raoul Duke in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Drugs

We can't stop here! This is bat country!

Raoul Duke in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

There's no right, there's no wrong, there's only popular opinion.

Jeffrey Goines in 12 Monkeys

Oh, wouldn't it be great if I was crazy? Then the world would be okay.

James Cole in 12 Monkeys

While it's not very Minnesotan to brag, I've got to brag on our state a little here: We were just ranked #1 in the country for health care.

Tim Walz - July 2024

Minnesota

Ted: "It's freezing out there. Where's your coat?"
Robin: "Ted, I'm Canadian. I don't need a coat. This kind of weather is nothing for me."
Marshall: "Yeah. This is like a spring day back in Minnesota."

Marshall Eriksen in How I Met Your Mother - Season 4 Episode 11

Canada Minnesota

Minnesota, I love you snow much!

Minnesota

Minnesota Forecast. Today: Sun. Tomorrow: Snow. Next Day: Tornado, probably.

Minnesota

You can leave Minneapolis, but it will never leave you.

Minneapolis

I like Hollywood. I just like Minneapolis a little bit better.

Prince

Minneapolis

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

Monty Python's Flying Circus

Colonel: "Watkins, why did you join the army?"
Watkins: "For the water-skiing and the travel, sir. Not for the killing, sir. I asked them to put it on my form, sir: 'no killing'."
Colonel: "Watkins, are you a pacifist?"
Watkins: "No, sir. I'm not a pacifist, sir. I'm a coward."

Monty Python's Flying Circus

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

Carol Cleveland - June 2014

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

John Cleese

Barbecue Meat

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

Michael Palin

Humanity

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

Terrorism

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

Reason & Sanity Craziness & Weirdness

Who's the more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him?

Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

Foolishness

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

T. S. Eliot

Media Television

You'll never see a Lamborghini commercial in TV again. People who are able to afford a Lamborghini have better things to do than watching TV.

Ferruccio Lamborghini

Television Lamborghini

One original thought is worth 1000 meaningless quotes.

Banksy

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