Five Quote by Eric Idle

You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.

— Robin Williams

Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this…

— Rowan Atkinson

I think nobody since has written such extraordinary work as Shakespeare writes. The characters he writes are full of inconsistencies, which is a great…

— Jeremy Irons

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…

— Eric Idle

And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels.

— Mark Rylance

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live.…

— Stephen Sondheim

The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone…

— Kevin Smith

I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.

— Rene Russo

The whole thrust of theatre is different, just because the writing is so much more respected in a play. Whereas in movies - and…

— Matt Damon

Most playwrights go wrong on the fifth word. When you start a play and you type 'Act one, scene one,' your writing is every…

— Meredith Willson

I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These producers were a…

— Ben Hecht

Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is,…

— Robert Hewison