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Know what I mean? Eh, eh, Nudge nudge, Say no more?

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Eric Idle
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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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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I liked doing live things, and with the Circus we had a live audience.
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I used to have a house in London, but couldn't face 20 more years of St John's Wood in the rain.
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I interviewed Matt [Stone] and Trey [Parker], actually, and I got to ask them questions. I love them deeply because they appeared dressed as J-Lo and someone else [who had worn the same scandalous dresses the year before at the Oscars]. They confessed they were on acid.
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Don't want to turn into mini-me.
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The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.
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I believe in the separation of church and planet.
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People who are interested in money are really uninteresting people. They look like Donald Trump.
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I didn't want to be big Mr. Ego walking around.
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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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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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The next step will be for the colonists on Mars to throw off the hand of the United States. There will be this wonderful historical irony. When the people on Mars write a declaration of independence saying, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident...', the US will be rather pissed off.
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I don't necessarily know much about comedy, I don't spend a lot of time watching it. Mainly because all my life for about 50 years I've had comedy.
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Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist
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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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People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.
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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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I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.
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Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.
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My first professional job was appearing in a disastrous theatre production of Oh, What a Lovely War in Leicester Rep, shortly after leaving Cambridge.
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