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Don't want to turn into mini-me.

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Eric Idle
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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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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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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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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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.
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People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.
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No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.
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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.
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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.
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Know what I mean? Eh, eh, Nudge nudge, Say no more?
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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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I liked doing live things, and with the Circus we had a live audience.
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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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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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I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.
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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.
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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 pay taxes in three countries, but can't vote in any of them.
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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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If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?
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If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.
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