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I just believe in a huge universe of billions of miles.

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Eric Idle
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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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.
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The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.
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I never think in terms of target audience. I try to write what makes me laugh, so I'm the target audience. I guess I just hope there's another person in America like me.
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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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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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A lot has been said about politics some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate
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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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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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No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.
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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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Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.
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I didn't want to be big Mr. Ego walking around.
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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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People who are interested in money are really uninteresting people. They look like Donald Trump.
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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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Filming a pirate film is always good fun, with ships and indecent clothing.
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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 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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