Monty Quotes

(on Montgomery Clift) Monty was a great talent, whose acting I always admired. He had extraordinary instincts. His observations about the script were always astute and correct. He would have made a great director, which eventually he wanted to be. "Would you ever direct yourself?," I once asked him. "Are you kidding," he replied. "As a director, I simply wouldn`t put up with all that crap from me." Monty was having problems then. He was full of all kinds of problems, many of them imaginary.

"Austin Powers was born out of trying to celebrate my father`s life. My father`s favorites were mine -- Peter Sellers, Monty Python, Peter Cook, and Dudley Moore...My dad was a guy who loved to be silly; he had a highly prized sense of humor. When I would bring friends home to play table hockey in the basement, if my dad didn`t think they were funny, he wouldn`t let them in the house. `They can`t come around,` he`d say. `They`re not bloody funny!`" - Biography, June 1999

(on Montgomery Clift) He had so much power, so much concentration. Clift was a complicated man, there`s no question about it. He was a very sweet man, Monty, very emotional.

I think what`s interesting about how it`s done is that it`s not black and white. I think you like Monty. I think he`s a really good guy.

I spent more time in America, but I developed a very English sense of humour. I clicked into it deeply with Peter Sellers, who is still probably my favourite comedian. I loved The Goons and then I got into "Beyond the Fringe" and by accident I met Jonathan Miller and those guys. And, of course, they led straight to (Monty) Python.

(on Montgomery Clift) Monty was the most emotional actor I have ever worked with. And it is contagious.

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

You can start any Monty Python routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.

Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing.

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.

The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.

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

Monty and I have both put pressure on ourselves to be the best we can be. But those guys are legends around here for a reason--they`ve made legendary plays, ... You have two different guys trying to play those roles on the team, but we can`t pretend to be those guys. We have to be Monty and Chad.

Players like Monty don`t retreat, they are solid under pressure and don`t try too hard to force things and wait for the birdies to come along,

Monty is a fantastic addition to the squad,

Monty is a fantastic addition to the squad. I am looking forward to coaching him, he is a no-nonsense competitor who will bring great experience and leadership to our squad.

The Full Monty, ah, it`s superb. The Full Monty showed how life really is in certain cities of England.

at 7:30 tonight. ``At halftime, we`re going to sit down with the three big offseason acquisitions on defense -- linebackers Monty Beisel and Chad Brown plus cornerback Duane Starks.