Monty Don Quotes

For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.'

I'm not allowed to be as liberal as I would like to be, you know? I'd do a lot more damage if I could!

Very few things are off-limits for me.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.

Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

The important thing for me when I look at characters is to consider the kind of constraints placed upon them. Now, me personally, I don't like to have a lot of constraints placed upon me.

Especially in Britain, people want to limit you.

Its limitations are those of the physical universe: it won't let you play with some really wild ideas that aren't possible, but are fun to speculate about.

When I was on the radio, I used to be able to go a lot farther than I can now. You don't really remember until you're on the radio again, sometimes in your old radio station and sitting with the guys you used to work with and you go, 'Oh yeah, I can't say these things anymore. I'm handcuffed.'

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

A lot of great creativity comes from restrictions.

A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.

So I wonder if anything should ever be off limits.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Some things are impossible.

People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.

For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.

In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.

Rules should not be barriers; they should be guides.

Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.

My creativity thrives with limitations.

When you're with WWE, you are operating within very fine boundaries that you cannot step outside of.

I think you can make jokes about anything. But you have to accept that there will be people who don't like it. And they are completely within their rights, just as you are completely within your rights to say whatever you want to say. They're within their rights to react how they're going to react.