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" 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? "
Eric Idle
Help
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it. "
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" 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. "
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" A website can be very time-intensive, but I'd love to have one where people can contribute to it - like invent islands and make their own flags, and their own laws. I think that'd be kind of fun. "
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" 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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" The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester? "
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" 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. "
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" It's such fun to take a lot of people and create something silly. "
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" People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying. "
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" Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that. "
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" Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead. "
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" I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy. "
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Boy
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" The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat. "
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Getting Older
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Tough
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" I was thrilled to win a Tony in 2005 for 'Spamalot'. "
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" 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. "
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" You look just like you! "
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" At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed to use it on 'Fox News'. "
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Speech
" If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives? "
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Paid
" I'm drawn to things that aren't particularly popular at the time. I don't know why. "
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Time
" Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours. "
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" I'm more surprised than anyone that 'Spamalot's done so well. You can never predict what's going to be a hit. "
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" 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. "
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" I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man. "
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" I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens. "
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" No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad. "
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