- Ringo: I'm writing a song.
- George: *stuffing a biscuit in his mouth* Great, what's it about?
- Ringo: ... An Octopus... under the sea...
- John: What? You can't do that; write a song about an octopus *sighs*
- George: You wrote a song called I Am the Walrus, John. I think we can have a song about an octopus.
May 13th, 1974: Photos from a very muddy day on the set of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
I went absolutely ape and threw myself in the air, landed in the mud, and just wiggled my legs around and screamed and yelled for about five seconds. There was absolute silence and then John and Graham just led this spontaneous applause. John said he’d never seen anything like it. He’d never seen me get angry, ever. - Michael Palin on his unexpected tantrum on set, after he’d been forced to eat from the mud a few too many takes.
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