Quote

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

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
Cambridge
Locked
Tradition
Comedy

More quotes by Eric Idle

Image
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
Image
Filming a pirate film is always good fun, with ships and indecent clothing.
Eric Idle
Image
I get to be the first doctor in the family [because of the honorary degree they're giving me].
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
Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.
Eric Idle
Image
Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist
Eric Idle
Image
A lot has been said about politics some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate
Eric Idle
Image
At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed to use it on 'Fox News'.
Eric Idle
Image
People who are interested in money are really uninteresting people. They look like Donald Trump.
Eric Idle
Image
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
Image
People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.
Eric Idle
Image
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
Image
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.
Eric Idle
Image
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
Image
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.
Eric Idle
Image
I liked doing live things, and with the Circus we had a live audience.
Eric Idle
Image
I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.
Eric Idle
Image
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
Image
I believe in the separation of church and planet.
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