People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.
I’ve never particularly liked travelling with large groups or being told where to go by somebody else. I prefer to find out for myself.
I’d got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.
I have been unusually blessed in that I’ve been allowed to pursue two strands of a career that both delight me and seem to please the public.
I can be me, and people seem quite happy with that.
In the absence of fear there is little faith.
I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women’s clothing and hang around in bars.
I remember queuing around the block in Sheffield when I was growing up. At that time, going to the cinema was really something special – there was something about the style of the real thing that is immeasurable nicer than multiplexes.
There are people who travel because they want to push themselves to physical limits, people who walk across deserts or cycle across the Antarctic – like Ranulph Fiennes, who just does it because it’s there. And then there are people like me, who are just genuinely curious about the world.
If atheists are deaf to the word of God, then theists are blind to the ways of man.
From my travels around the world I have seen how much damage and pollution is done by the careless disposal of waste. It is also evident that we in the West produce far more and throw away far more than the developing world, almost without thinking.
If I am seen as successful, it’s all the more reason not to change – not to lose track of friends, not to be driven everywhere, not to go and get away from the world. That, to me, is real success: enjoying what you do, but being the same person.
My marriage has worked because I am not around much.
When in doubt, resort to animation.
I mistrust total competence. I’ve always felt life is a series of small disasters we try to get through.
Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote.
It’s not a model if it’s full-size. It’s a ice-breaker!
The need to eat, sleep and dry out plays havoc with your sense of wonder.
Ronnie Barker was a straightforward man who had this extraordinary ability to make the nation laugh.
One of the difficult things of so much travelling is to say goodbye.