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Eric Idle Inspirational Quotes (52)

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People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.
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I liked doing live things, and with the Circus we had a live audience.
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I like doing live things and plays. You can perfect the laugh or extend the laugh, you can get them on a roll. Versus improv, which I hate. Put it all together. They're more vignettes. Improv makes me slightly anxious because I feel for them.
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I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.
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I get to be the first doctor in the family [because of the honorary degree they're giving me].
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If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.
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You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that's all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam's the same. All of us together make one completely insane person.
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If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?
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Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.
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I never think in terms of target audience. I try to write what makes me laugh, so I'm the target audience. I guess I just hope there's another person in America like me.
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At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed to use it on 'Fox News'.
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The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?
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People who are interested in money are really uninteresting people. They look like Donald Trump.
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When I was 23 I started writing for I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again and was paid three guineas for every minute's airtime.
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Filming a pirate film is always good fun, with ships and indecent clothing.
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Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist
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I used to collect Persian rugs and real estate - you should be able to walk on and live in your money. I had to give up the rugs because I'm allergic to mould.
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Learn to trust yourself. That's very vital. ... Just stand with yourself. Remember, in his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only two paintings. I personally sold even fewer.
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The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.
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Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.
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I believe in the separation of church and planet.
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I didn't want to be big Mr. Ego walking around.
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I think you often learn from failure. Success just teaches you how great you were, but in fact it's knowing what will fail that will help you to make the right choices.
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I'm not really a celebrity I'm just vestigially left over from doing stuff from before.
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