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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
Actor
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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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They're a typical Hollywood audience. All the kids are on drugs and all the adults are on roller skates.
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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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Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist
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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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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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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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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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I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.
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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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I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.
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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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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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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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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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Filming a pirate film is always good fun, with ships and indecent clothing.
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I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.
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People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.
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