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Eric Idle
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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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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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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They're a typical Hollywood audience. All the kids are on drugs and all the adults are on roller skates.
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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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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'.
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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'm not really a celebrity I'm just vestigially left over from doing stuff from before.
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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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Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.
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Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.
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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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I believe in the separation of church and planet.
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I liked doing live things, and with the Circus we had a live audience.
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Filming a pirate film is always good fun, with ships and indecent clothing.
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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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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.
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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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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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No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.
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I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.
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