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Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist
Eric Idle
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Eric Idle
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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I live in a Spanish-style hillside home in Los Angeles, California. I paid $900,000 in 1995. It's perhaps worth about $3m now. Thankfully, I paid off my mortgage before the crash because I could see it coming. I worried that I would be caught having to pay off a very high mortgage for a house I couldn't sell.
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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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Filming a pirate film is always good fun, with ships and indecent clothing.
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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 never think in terms of target audience. I try to write what makes me laugh, so I'm the target audience. I guess I just hope there's another person in America like me.
Eric Idle
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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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 won't read scripts because I have a limited amount of time. Why should I help other people do lame stuff when I can just go out and put on lame stuff of my own?
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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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No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.
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.
Eric Idle
I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.
Eric Idle
Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.
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I just believe in a huge universe of billions of miles.
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Know what I mean? Eh, eh, Nudge nudge, Say no more?
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I didn't want to be big Mr. Ego walking around.
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I pay taxes in three countries, but can't vote in any of them.
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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
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.
Eric Idle
