Eric Idle Quotes

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• I have been very blessed in my life and rewarded with good friends and good health. I am grateful and happy to be able to…
• I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man.
• I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens.
• Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.
• The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.
• Probably spending 12 years at boarding school - comedy became a survival gene. But I think some people are funny right off the bat, as…
• My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough,…
• If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?
• You look just like you!
• At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits…
• We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.

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