"I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me."

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

Source : "Review: Eric Idle's silly, wonderful tour" By L.D. Meagher, www.cnn.com. March 8, 2005.

“I think that any time you are making a film you have to realize that the people you are talking with might be giving you misinformation. Sometimes it is factually incorrect and for that, it's important to me to check it out and not let things find their way into the film without being challenged, either by me, or by another character, or by evidence that you might see on screen.”

“From being at art college, I've always hated people that have the gall to think that they're being incredibly different when they're doing something in a very acceptable way, something safe that they've seen someone else doing.”

“I'm not a historian, and I wouldn't want to be. I want to change the world. Attack the elite. Overturn the hierarchy. Look at my stories and you'll notice that the villains are always, always, those in power. The heroes are the little people. I hate the establishment. Always have, always will.”

Source : "Terry Deary: The man behind the Horrible Histories". Interview with Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2012.

“If a neighbor is killed in a car accident, do you sell your car and stop driving?”

“You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.”

Source : "'A feeling of realistic optimism': An interview with Nadine Gordimer". Salmagundi, 113, 1997.

“I enjoy playing a quintessential antihero. There's something therapeutic about playing such characters. I know it sounds corny but I feel like I learn about myself when I play that characters.”

“To think is to destroy.”