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I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.

Eric Idle

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Eric Idle
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
Actor
Comedian
Film Actor
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Erik Idle
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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.
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You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that's all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam's the same. All of us together make one completely insane person.
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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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Know what I mean? Eh, eh, Nudge nudge, Say no more?
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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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Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.
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Filming a pirate film is always good fun, with ships and indecent clothing.
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I think you often learn from failure. Success just teaches you how great you were, but in fact it's knowing what will fail that will help you to make the right choices.
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People who are interested in money are really uninteresting people. They look like Donald Trump.
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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.
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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 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'm not really a celebrity I'm just vestigially left over from doing stuff from before.
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The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.
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People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.
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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.
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I live in a Spanish-style hillside home in Los Angeles, California. I paid $900,000 in 1995. It's perhaps worth about $3m now. Thankfully, I paid off my mortgage before the crash because I could see it coming. I worried that I would be caught having to pay off a very high mortgage for a house I couldn't sell.
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