Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Eric Idle
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
Actor
Comedian
Film Actor
Film Director
Guitarist
Lyricist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Singer-Songwriter
Television Actor
Writer
Erik Idle
Erick Idle
Leaving
Cambridge
War
Disastrous
Jobs
Appearing
Firsts
Production
First
Productions
Professional
Theatre
Leicester
Lovely
Shortly

More quotes by Eric Idle

Image
I liked doing live things, and with the Circus we had a live audience.
Eric Idle
Image
No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.
Eric Idle
Image
I'm not really a celebrity I'm just vestigially left over from doing stuff from before.
Eric Idle
Image
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
Image
Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.
Eric Idle
Image
Filming a pirate film is always good fun, with ships and indecent clothing.
Eric Idle
Image
I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.
Eric Idle
Image
If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?
Eric Idle
Image
Know what I mean? Eh, eh, Nudge nudge, Say no more?
Eric Idle
Image
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
Image
I believe in the separation of church and planet.
Eric Idle
Image
They're a typical Hollywood audience. All the kids are on drugs and all the adults are on roller skates.
Eric Idle
Image
I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.
Eric Idle
Image
Don't want to turn into mini-me.
Eric Idle
Image
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.
Eric Idle
Image
Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is Perth Pink. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is beware. This is not a wine for drinking this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.
Eric Idle
Image
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.
Eric Idle
Image
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
Image
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
Image
I just believe in a huge universe of billions of miles.
Eric Idle