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Graham Chapman
7 quotes
“It's fear. … There's no point in it. We should just love each other, and do it in our own way. That's the only thing that's important.”
Graham Chapman (1941–1989) first seen 1972 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with George Melly in 1972 on the Granada Television chat show George. By "it", Chapman means and . Chapman came out on the programme as . He was one of the first British public figures to come out publicly as …
“I think … [what attracted me to show business] was the early radio shows. I was an avid listener to radio shows like Take It from Here; before that, Jewel and Warriss, Hancock, all sorts of radio shows. And then, later—when I was around thirteen, fourteen—The Goon Show, of course. Here came a show which was not like any of the other shows. It didn't have the same kind of rules. It didn't have any rules. It didn't even like the medium that was putting it out, particularly; it didn't like the BBC. Wonderful! There was something I could relate to, and did.”
Graham Chapman (1941–1989) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview on Parkinson in October 1980 (series 10, episode 8)
“Once the decision had been made, once I decided to stop [drinking], it was easy—except for the … three days of unpleasantness, of—well, of having things crawl all over me and hallucinating. … One of the worst things was not being able to remember if I'd slept or not, whether I was dreaming, or whether I was awake. I didn't know.”
Graham Chapman (1941–1989) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Parkinson interview (October 1980).
“[My parents] came to grips with the drinking … much more easily, I think, than [with my sexuality]. Yes. But, things are rather better now than in those days, of course. It was some time ago. And now, even the Church of England, I think, regards a homosexual as merely being handicapped.”
Graham Chapman (1941–1989) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with David Letterman on Late Night with David Letterman, 20 April 1982 (season 1, episode 46).
“There was one occasion when John Cleese and myself actually felt guilty about laughing at something we were writing, because it was in incredibly bad taste. So bad was the taste that we just couldn't help laughing at it. It concerned a gentleman walking into … an undertaker's premises with his dead mother in a sack. And from there it got worse.”
Graham Chapman (1941–1989) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview (alongside Terry Gilliam) with David Letterman on Late Night with David Letterman, 24 June 1982 (season 1, episode 80).
“Ultimately, I think writing is more … satisfying [than acting], … because if you write something, later on in the day … you can read it through again and you know that it's … good. That's a very satisfying feeling because [the work] is there, it's something you've created. … Acting is … a skill which a lot of people have. Less so with writing …. But, I'm enjoying acting now much more than I did. It was torture for me at one point, in the latter days of [Monty Python's Flying Circus]. But then, after sobering up, I really began to enjoy it again.”
Graham Chapman (1941–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From "Performing Versus Writing", an interview excerpt included on the posthumously released comedy album Looks Like Another Brown Trouser Job (Rykodisc, 2006).
“The very first day of filming of The Holy Grail, in fact, we were halfway up a mountainside in Glen Coe, and I hadn't gotten my daily dose, and it was seven o'clock in the morning that we left the hotel. The bar wasn't open; I hadn't realised this, and hadn't gotten anything prepared the night before that I should have if I'd researched my drinking properly. And so I had DTs on the mountainside while having to try and remember lines and (uh) stand up. … It was then that I decided next time that I do a job like this I'm going to be clean for it. It's not fair to the other chaps in the group, it's not fair to me, it's not fair to what I've written, and it's very stupid.”
Graham Chapman (1941–1989) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Parkinson interview (October 1980). The first day of filming was 30 April 1974.