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They're a typical Hollywood audience. All the kids are on drugs and all the adults are on roller skates.
Eric Idle
I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.
Eric Idle
Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.
Eric Idle
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.
Eric Idle
Basically, the Germans came to us and said, "We don't have a sense of humour."
Eric Idle
Always look on the bright side of life.
Eric Idle
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.
Eric Idle
The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.
Eric Idle
Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.
Eric Idle
People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.
Eric Idle
The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?
Eric Idle
I like being a foreigner. For me, to live in California is very pleasant - I'm more comfortable not feeling a part of everything, not feeling responsible for the government or the roads or the health system.
Eric Idle
I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens.
Eric Idle
I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.
Eric Idle
If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?
Eric Idle
I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.
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 the material is.
Eric Idle
Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.
Eric Idle
To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs, that's what the musical does best.
Eric Idle
I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.
Eric Idle
I never think in terms of target audience. I try to write what makes me laugh, so I'm the target audience. I guess I just hope there's another person in America like me.
Eric Idle
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 share this.
Eric Idle
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