Eric Idle Python Quotations

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

I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.

Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.

Monty Python paid me £20,000 to write, direct and assemble them - the cheapskates! I told them I'd never earned less in a year since leaving Cambridge. The first show sold out in 43 seconds and we ended up performing ten in total. We had no idea there would be such demand.