If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives? — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
I won't read scripts because I have a limited amount of time. Why should I help other people do lame stuff when… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very… — Eric Idle Comedy 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 used to have a house in London, but couldn't face 20 more years of St John's Wood in the rain. — Eric Idle Faces Copy Share Image
I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I… — Eric Idle Audience Copy Share Image
At Cambridge, you have to kiss the vice-chancellor's fingers. But I missed out on that, 'cause I was doing a matinee. I… — Eric Idle Cambridge Copy Share Image
Never do things for money. It's always the things you do for love that turn out to pay the best. — Eric Idle Love Copy Share Image
I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens. — Eric Idle Audience Copy Share Image
I like doing live things and plays. You can perfect the laugh or extend the laugh, you can get them on a… — Eric Idle Anxious Copy Share Image
My father, who was a sergeant in the RAF during the Second World War, was killed in a hitchhiking accident while returning… — Eric Idle Accidents Copy Share Image
Bear in mind the simple rule, X squared to the power of two minus five over the seven point eight three times… — Eric Idle Bears 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… — Eric Idle Bright side Copy Share Image
A website can be very time-intensive, but I'd love to have one where people can contribute to it - like invent islands… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
The next step will be for the colonists on Mars to throw off the hand of the United States. There will be… — Eric Idle Colonists Copy Share Image
I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
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
Learn to trust yourself. That's very vital. ... Just stand with yourself. Remember, in his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only two paintings.… — Eric Idle Artist Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm more surprised than anyone that 'Spamalot's done so well. You can never predict what's going to be a hit. — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily know much about comedy, I don't spend a lot of time watching it. Mainly because all my life for… — Eric Idle Comedy Copy Share Image
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours. — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
I used to collect Persian rugs and real estate - you should be able to walk on and live in your money.… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
You could write a joke in the pub at lunchtime and watch it performed on television that evening. — Eric Idle Comedy Copy Share Image
It just seems to me that there's no particular reason comedy albums should be dead. There's a lot to laugh at. We… — Eric Idle Albums Copy Share Image
The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester? — Eric Idle Leicester Copy Share Image
Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny… — Eric Idle Authority Copy Share Image
Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it,… — Eric Idle Ambition Copy Share Image
There's animals like us existing and thinking and giving interviews on Australian television. — Eric Idle Animal Copy Share Image
My first professional job was appearing in a disastrous theatre production of Oh, What a Lovely War in Leicester Rep, shortly after… — Eric Idle Actor 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 Guinea Copy Share Image
I have been very blessed in my life and rewarded with good friends and good health. I am grateful and happy to… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
I get to be the first doctor in the family [because of the honorary degree they're giving me]. — Eric Idle College 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… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is… — Eric Idle Age Copy Share Image
No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad. — Eric Idle Life Copy Share Image
Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have. — Eric Idle Comedy Copy Share Image
Typical Hollywood crowd - all the kids are on drugs, and all the adults are on roller skates. — Eric Idle Adults Copy Share Image
Probably spending 12 years at boarding school - comedy became a survival gene. But I think some people are funny right off… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
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