Eric Idle Quotes

I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.
I won't read scripts because I have a limited amount of time. Why should I help other people do lame stuff when I can just go out and put on lame stuff of my own?
I'm drawn to things that aren't particularly popular at the time. I don't know why.
I'm more surprised than anyone that 'Spamalot's done so well. You can never predict what's going to be a hit.
I've always found bad films more enjoyable than good ones.
If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?
It just seems to me that there's no particular reason comedy albums should be dead. There's a lot to laugh at. We have very funny people, still.
It's such fun to take a lot of people and create something silly.
John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it.
Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.
Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it.
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, but it got me to Cambridge - like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly.
Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.
People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.
Probably spending 12 years at boarding school - comedy became a survival gene. But I think some people are funny right off the bat, as soon as they can speak or be naughty.
Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms.
The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.
You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that's all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam's the same. All of us together make one completely insane person.
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