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Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.
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Eric Idle
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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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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Filming a pirate film is always good fun, with ships and indecent clothing.
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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 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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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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They're a typical Hollywood audience. All the kids are on drugs and all the adults are on roller skates.
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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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I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.
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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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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.
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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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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'm not really a celebrity I'm just vestigially left over from doing stuff from before.
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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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Know what I mean? Eh, eh, Nudge nudge, Say no more?
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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 believe in the separation of church and planet.
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I just believe in a huge universe of billions of miles.
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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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Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.
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