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I pay taxes in three countries, but can't vote in any of them.

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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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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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I just believe in a huge universe of billions of miles.
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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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A lot has been said about politics some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate
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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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I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.
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You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that's all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam's the same. All of us together make one completely insane person.
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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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Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.
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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.
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The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.
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I didn't want to be big Mr. Ego walking around.
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People who are interested in money are really uninteresting people. They look like Donald Trump.
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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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Filming a pirate film is always good fun, with ships and indecent clothing.
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I like doing live things and plays. You can perfect the laugh or extend the laugh, you can get them on a roll. Versus improv, which I hate. Put it all together. They're more vignettes. Improv makes me slightly anxious because I feel for them.
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Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist
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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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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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