Quote

Filming a pirate film is always good fun, with ships and indecent clothing.

Eric Idle

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Eric Idle
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
Actor
Comedian
Film Actor
Film Director
Guitarist
Lyricist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Singer-Songwriter
Television Actor
Writer
Erik Idle
Erick Idle
Fun
Film
Good
Indecent
Always
Filming
Pirate
Clothings
Clothing
Ships

More quotes by Eric Idle

Image
Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.
Eric Idle
Image
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
Image
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.
Eric Idle
Image
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
Image
People who are interested in money are really uninteresting people. They look like Donald Trump.
Eric Idle
Image
If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?
Eric Idle
Image
Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.
Eric Idle
Image
I never think in terms of target audience. I try to write what makes me laugh, so I'm the target audience. I guess I just hope there's another person in America like me.
Eric Idle
Image
People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.
Eric Idle
Image
I believe in the separation of church and planet.
Eric Idle
Image
Know what I mean? Eh, eh, Nudge nudge, Say no more?
Eric Idle
Image
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
Image
I'm not really a celebrity I'm just vestigially left over from doing stuff from before.
Eric Idle
Image
I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.
Eric Idle
Image
Don't want to turn into mini-me.
Eric Idle
Image
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
Image
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.
Eric Idle
Image
I just believe in a huge universe of billions of miles.
Eric Idle
Image
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.
Eric Idle
Image
The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.
Eric Idle