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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'.
Eric Idle
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Eric Idle
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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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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Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it.
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The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.
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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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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.
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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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At Cambridge, you have to kiss the vice-chancellor's fingers. But I missed out on that, 'cause I was doing a matinee. I don't want to kiss a strange man's fingers anyway.
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I liked doing live things, and with the Circus we had a live audience.
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If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?
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I didn't want to be big Mr. Ego walking around.
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