Eric Idle

“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…

— Eric Idle

Having little money to spend was a valuable learning experience. My schooling also shaped my work ethic because while other children were…

— Eric Idle

Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.

— Eric Idle

If you're famous, you have to [be overly generous], otherwise people say, "Eric Idle came in and only left me $4." I…

— Eric Idle

At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed…

— Eric Idle

You look just like you!

— Eric Idle

Many years ago I also bought a house in Provence for about 70,000 francs. It had no electricity or running water, and…

— Eric Idle

No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.

— Eric Idle

“sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will make me cry by myself in a corner for hours.”

— Eric Idle

I believe in the separation of church and planet.

— Eric Idle

I've got soggy thighs. It must be dinner time.

— Eric Idle

At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a…

— Eric Idle

The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?

— Eric Idle

I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what…

— Eric Idle

There's no gap between the writer and the performer, which is what I think makes [Monty] Python unique. Five or six people…

— Eric Idle

I hate movies. They're so boring. So tedious.

— Eric Idle

Probably spending 12 years at boarding school - comedy became a survival gene. But I think some people are funny right off…

— Eric Idle

Know what I mean? Eh, eh, Nudge nudge, Say no more?

— Eric Idle

One of the reasons we moved to L.A. in the first place [was] so that it was no big deal that I…

— Eric Idle

Subversion is what I do.

— Eric Idle

Executives do not on the whole do well with comedy. They can't understand it, they can't read it, they can't spot it.

— Eric Idle

My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings.…

— Eric Idle

My wife, Tania, is very big on dogs, so I'm always paying out to animal charities.

— Eric Idle

I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man.

— Eric Idle

I love stage work. The thing about plays is that they're perfectible. With film, you shoot that take and maybe another. During…

— Eric Idle