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I pay taxes in three countries, but can't vote in any of them.
Eric Idle
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Eric Idle
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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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 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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Don't want to turn into mini-me.
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People who are interested in money are really uninteresting people. They look like Donald Trump.
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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 interviewed Matt [Stone] and Trey [Parker], actually, and I got to ask them questions. I love them deeply because they appeared dressed as J-Lo and someone else [who had worn the same scandalous dresses the year before at the Oscars]. They confessed they were on acid.
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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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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 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 didn't want to be big Mr. Ego walking around.
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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'.
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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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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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A lot has been said about politics some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate
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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 got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.
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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 the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?
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I believe in the separation of church and planet.
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