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Quotes by Graham Chapman

All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.
– Graham Chapman
Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.
– Graham Chapman
Dressing up as decrepit old ladies, and even decrepit young ladies, was one of our staples.
– Graham Chapman
Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.
– Graham Chapman
I can't talk to a man who bears an undeserved animosity towards ferrets.
– Graham Chapman
I do not really look back with regret on any feelings or problems I have had in the past. I think I am more able to accept problems as being part of the rough and tumble of life. There are bound to be ups and downs. In retrospect, when you've gotten pasty a tough period, it makes the good things that much better.
– Graham Chapman
I hope I will have achieved something lasting.
– Graham Chapman
If this one takes off, it could make me rich beyond my wildest dreams. And believe me, my dreams are pretty wild!
– Graham Chapman
It's nice to see that look of alarm on the faces of the others.
– Graham Chapman
Monty Python was well-known for pushing and breaking comedy taboos and raising a stir... .we were also the first show to do cannibalism as a schtick.
– Graham Chapman
Other people build sketches after taking too many sleeping pills, but I never preferred that method, since I would keep dropping my pencil.
– Graham Chapman
Several pantomine characters in Python made quite a spectacle.
– Graham Chapman
Stormy in love, stormy in interviews, breakfast in bed-that's me, love.
– Graham Chapman
We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified.
– Graham Chapman
We had many concerns while planning Monty Python's Flying Circus... we wanted to avoid being bracketed as being another offshoot.
– Graham Chapman
We received a letter from a lady who was incensed about my moral depravity, as though I was destroying the underpinnings of society.
– Graham Chapman
We'd obviously realized at this stage that if we wrote something in a show that got repeated, then we would get another fee for it without having to do any extra work. Now that looked like a good idea, and as the BBC didn't pay us very much in the first place- the ingrates-it was almost essential to have the thing repeated.
– Graham Chapman
World War II... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany who were throwing bombs at us.
– Graham Chapman
Yes, clothes dryers are monsters, and more of them should be painted... we did paint the clothes dryer on the set.
– Graham Chapman
You know, Python should have won a Grammy for our musical work on the show.
– Graham Chapman