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I'm not really a celebrity I'm just vestigially left over from doing stuff from before.
Eric Idle
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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.
Eric Idle
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.
Eric Idle
My first professional job was appearing in a disastrous theatre production of Oh, What a Lovely War in Leicester Rep, shortly after leaving Cambridge.
Eric Idle
They're a typical Hollywood audience. All the kids are on drugs and all the adults are on roller skates.
Eric Idle
I get to be the first doctor in the family [because of the honorary degree they're giving me].
Eric Idle
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.
Eric Idle
At Cambridge, you have to kiss the vice-chancellor's fingers. But I missed out on that, 'cause I was doing a matinee. I don't want to kiss a strange man's fingers anyway.
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.
Eric Idle
I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.
Eric Idle
I didn't want to be big Mr. Ego walking around.
Eric Idle
People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.
Eric Idle
No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.
Eric Idle
Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.
Eric Idle
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.
Eric Idle
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
Well we were lucky because we started in Canada where everybody has a sense of humour! We flirted a little while with Josh Groban. He was personally interested in it. He said oh I'd love to do something different, and I said well it's pretty different! But in the end the dates didn't work out.
Eric Idle
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.
Eric Idle
Know what I mean? Eh, eh, Nudge nudge, Say no more?
Eric Idle
I believe in the separation of church and planet.
Eric Idle
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