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I get to be the first doctor in the family [because of the honorary degree they're giving me].
Eric Idle
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Eric Idle
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.
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If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?
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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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Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it.
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Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist
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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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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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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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Don't want to turn into mini-me.
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Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.
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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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Filming a pirate film is always good fun, with ships and indecent clothing.
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I won't read scripts because I have a limited amount of time. Why should I help other people do lame stuff when I can just go out and put on lame stuff of my own?
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I just believe in a huge universe of billions of miles.
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I live in a Spanish-style hillside home in Los Angeles, California. I paid $900,000 in 1995. It's perhaps worth about $3m now. Thankfully, I paid off my mortgage before the crash because I could see it coming. I worried that I would be caught having to pay off a very high mortgage for a house I couldn't sell.
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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 got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.
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I pay taxes in three countries, but can't vote in any of them.
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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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