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I liked doing live things, and with the Circus we had a live audience.
Eric Idle
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Eric Idle
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.
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I pay taxes in three countries, but can't vote in any of them.
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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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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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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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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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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 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 get to be the first doctor in the family [because of the honorary degree they're giving me].
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Know what I mean? Eh, eh, Nudge nudge, Say no more?
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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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Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist
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People who are interested in money are really uninteresting people. They look like Donald Trump.
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The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.
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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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I just believe in a huge universe of billions of miles.
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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 don't necessarily know much about comedy, I don't spend a lot of time watching it. Mainly because all my life for about 50 years I've had comedy.
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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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Don't want to turn into mini-me.
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