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Eric Idle
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Eric Idle
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.
Eric Idle
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.
Eric Idle
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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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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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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I'm not really a celebrity I'm just vestigially left over from doing stuff from before.
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I liked doing live things, and with the Circus we had a live audience.
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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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They're a typical Hollywood audience. All the kids are on drugs and all the adults are on roller skates.
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Don't want to turn into mini-me.
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Well we were lucky because we started in Canada where everybody has a sense of humour! We flirted a little while with Josh Groban. He was personally interested in it. He said oh I'd love to do something different, and I said well it's pretty different! But in the end the dates didn't work out.
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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.
Eric Idle
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.
Eric Idle
I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.
Eric Idle
People who are interested in money are really uninteresting people. They look like Donald Trump.
Eric Idle
The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.
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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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Monty Python paid me £20,000 to write, direct and assemble them - the cheapskates! I told them I'd never earned less in a year since leaving Cambridge. The first show sold out in 43 seconds and we ended up performing ten in total. We had no idea there would be such demand.
Eric Idle
We never have that thought! The whole object is to bite off more than you can chew. John [Du Prez] always says, Eric thinks of something completely insane and insists we go in that direction. It's the correct way to look at things and the correct place to start, I think.
Eric Idle
Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.
Eric Idle