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Eric Idle
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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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 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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People who are interested in money are really uninteresting people. They look like Donald Trump.
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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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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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Monty Python paid me £20,000 to write, direct and assemble them - the cheapskates! I told them I'd never earned less in a year since leaving Cambridge. The first show sold out in 43 seconds and we ended up performing ten in total. We had no idea there would be such demand.
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I liked doing live things, and with the Circus we had a live audience.
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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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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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Filming a pirate film is always good fun, with ships and indecent clothing.
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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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Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist
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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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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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