My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings.… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
When, in 1966, I progressed to The Frost Report, I was paid ten guineas a minute. I was guaranteed three minutes a… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
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.… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
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. — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
Monty Python paid me £20,000 to write, direct and assemble them - the cheapskates! I told them I'd never earned less in… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives? — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
“Life's a piece of shit, when you look at it, life's a laugh and deat's a joke, it's true: You'll se it's all a… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
Having little money to spend was a valuable learning experience. My schooling also shaped my work ethic because while other children were listening to… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that. — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
If you're famous, you have to [be overly generous], otherwise people say, "Eric Idle came in and only left me $4." I always tip… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
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… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
Many years ago I also bought a house in Provence for about 70,000 francs. It had no electricity or running water, and no road… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad. — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
“sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will make me cry by myself in a corner for hours.” — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
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