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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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The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.
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
Learn to trust yourself. That's very vital. ... Just stand with yourself. Remember, in his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only two paintings. I personally sold even fewer.
Eric Idle
I get to be the first doctor in the family [because of the honorary degree they're giving me].
Eric Idle
Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.
Eric Idle
People who are interested in money are really uninteresting people. They look like Donald Trump.
Eric Idle
Know what I mean? Eh, eh, Nudge nudge, Say no more?
Eric Idle
I pay taxes in three countries, but can't vote in any of them.
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
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
They're a typical Hollywood audience. All the kids are on drugs and all the adults are on roller skates.
Eric Idle
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.
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
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.
Eric Idle
I don't necessarily know much about comedy, I don't spend a lot of time watching it. Mainly because all my life for about 50 years I've had comedy.
Eric Idle
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.
Eric Idle
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?
Eric Idle
If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?
Eric Idle
I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.
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