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Eric Idle
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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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.
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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 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 liked doing live things, and with the Circus we had a live audience.
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I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.
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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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They're a typical Hollywood audience. All the kids are on drugs and all the adults are on roller skates.
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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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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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Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist
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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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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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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 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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Know what I mean? Eh, eh, Nudge nudge, Say no more?
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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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I didn't want to be big Mr. Ego walking around.
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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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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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Even if you've written something for print, I think it's good to try [it] out on someone because it changes. You can think it's hilarious and they can tell you it's not.
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