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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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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.
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People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.
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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.
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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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Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.
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People who are interested in money are really uninteresting people. They look like Donald Trump.
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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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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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Know what I mean? Eh, eh, Nudge nudge, Say no more?
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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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The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?
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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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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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A lot has been said about politics some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate
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They're a typical Hollywood audience. All the kids are on drugs and all the adults are on roller skates.
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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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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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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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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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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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