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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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Know what I mean? Eh, eh, Nudge nudge, Say no more?
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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.
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I used to collect Persian rugs and real estate - you should be able to walk on and live in your money. I had to give up the rugs because I'm allergic to mould.
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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.
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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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Don't want to turn into mini-me.
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We never have that thought! The whole object is to bite off more than you can chew. John [Du Prez] always says, Eric thinks of something completely insane and insists we go in that direction. It's the correct way to look at things and the correct place to start, I think.
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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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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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Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.
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The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?
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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 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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A lot has been said about politics some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate
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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 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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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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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.
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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.
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