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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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Eric Idle
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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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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I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.
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I just believe in a huge universe of billions of miles.
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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.
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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 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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Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.
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I pay taxes in three countries, but can't vote in any of them.
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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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If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?
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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 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 liked doing live things, and with the Circus we had a live audience.
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People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.
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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 get to be the first doctor in the family [because of the honorary degree they're giving me].
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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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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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