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I just believe in a huge universe of billions of miles.
Eric Idle
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Eric Idle
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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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 the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?
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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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They're a typical Hollywood audience. All the kids are on drugs and all the adults are on roller skates.
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I believe in the separation of church and planet.
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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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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
A lot has been said about politics some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate
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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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Filming a pirate film is always good fun, with ships and indecent clothing.
Eric Idle
I liked doing live things, and with the Circus we had a live audience.
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Know what I mean? Eh, eh, Nudge nudge, Say no more?
Eric Idle
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.
Eric Idle
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
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
I'm not really a celebrity I'm just vestigially left over from doing stuff from before.
Eric Idle
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.
Eric Idle
Don't want to turn into mini-me.
Eric Idle
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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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.
Eric Idle