'The Truth' is not meant to preach or point any fingers. It's meant to show that perhaps we should all avoid taking the moral high ground unless we have thought about things a bit more.
I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own.
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'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 want people to know there is more to Somalia than looting and piracy.
There is nothing better than playing a scene with John Cleese or Maggie Smith. It's electric. But I don't think I'm the sort of person who needs to have an outer ego in order to produce something. I realised that through the travel programmes.
When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'
I've been lucky enough to stand on both poles, but the place that seemed the remotest to me was Butugychag, a former gulag in Siberia. It is completely cut off from the rest of the world.
People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.
Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.
I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.
People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.
The kids growing up is a separate strand to your life. However bad a day you've had, that's the most important thing, and you have to remember that.
I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers.
People look for patterns in everything. It's what keeps us sane, I suppose. I struggle to see any patterns in my life. I think I can understand depression a bit because of my sister. My own feelings of... I'm aware that, if you feel down, it can be strangely unrelated to circumstances around you. That's just the way life is.
Something about John Cleese was always very unsettled, I felt. There was always something else he wanted to do. He seemed constantly driven by this sense that there was a nirvana somewhere; some unique place where mind, body and soul would be utterly satisfied.
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.
