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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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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
Don't want to turn into mini-me.
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If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?
Eric Idle
I used to have a house in London, but couldn't face 20 more years of St John's Wood in the rain.
Eric Idle
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.
Eric Idle
I liked doing live things, and with the Circus we had a live audience.
Eric Idle
They're a typical Hollywood audience. All the kids are on drugs and all the adults are on roller skates.
Eric Idle
Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist
Eric Idle
Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.
Eric Idle
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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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
People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.
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
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
Know what I mean? Eh, eh, Nudge nudge, Say no more?
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 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
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 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
The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.
Eric Idle