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" Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have. "
Eric Idle
Life Is A
Try
Comedy
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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? "
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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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Transport
Minister
Give
" 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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Success
Talent
" 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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Think
Love
Funny
" 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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Bounce
Audience
Different
" I'm drawn to things that aren't particularly popular at the time. I don't know why. "
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Know
Why
Time
" 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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Hat
Boy
Drop
" I've always found bad films more enjoyable than good ones. "
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Found
Always
Than
" 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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More
Never
You
" I do pool exercises, like weightlifting but underwater. I walk, I swim... I'm pretty fit for an old bloke. "
Eric Idle
Old
Swim
Pool
" 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
Enjoy
Happiness
Life
" 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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Funny
Comedy
People
" 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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Anything
Up
Shut Up
" 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
Health
Government
Roads
" The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat. "
Eric Idle
You
Getting Older
Drop
" 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. "
Eric Idle
Education
Tough
School
" 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
Think
Charge
Decide
" 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
Try
Me
Hope
" If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives? "
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Artists
How
Paid
" I was thrilled to win a Tony in 2005 for 'Spamalot'. "
Eric Idle
Win
Thrilled
Tony
" Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours. "
Eric Idle
Will
Cry
Go
" 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. "
Eric Idle
Kind
Be Kind
Think
" I love stage work. The thing about plays is that they're perfectible. With film, you shoot that take and maybe another. During 'Spamalot,' I rewrote Act II three times. "
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Work
Three
You
" 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. "
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Survival
Funny
People
" No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad. "
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Day
Me
My Life
" We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make. "
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Make
Less
Discovered
" People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying. "
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Lying
More
Much
" 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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Now
Age
Irony
" 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. "
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Television
Doing
Funny
" You look just like you! "
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Look
Like
Just