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Eric Idle
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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I get to be the first doctor in the family [because of the honorary degree they're giving me].
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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.
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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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People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.
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I didn't want to be big Mr. Ego walking around.
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I believe in the separation of church and planet.
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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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They're a typical Hollywood audience. All the kids are on drugs and all the adults are on roller skates.
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Filming a pirate film is always good fun, with ships and indecent clothing.
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Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.
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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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A lot has been said about politics some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate
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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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