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If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?
Eric Idle
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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 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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The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?
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People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.
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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 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.
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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 got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.
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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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I get to be the first doctor in the family [because of the honorary degree they're giving me].
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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 didn't want to be big Mr. Ego walking around.
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I liked doing live things, and with the Circus we had a live audience.
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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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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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No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.
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I just believe in a huge universe of billions of miles.
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Filming a pirate film is always good fun, with ships and indecent clothing.
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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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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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