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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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" 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

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Government

Roads

" I've always found bad films more enjoyable than good ones. "

" 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? "

" 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'. "

" 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. "

" 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

" Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have. "

" Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead. "

" No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad. "

Eric Idle

Day

My Life

" 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. "

" You look just like you! "

Eric Idle

Look

Just

" I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was thrilled to win a Tony in 2005 for 'Spamalot'. "

" 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. "

" 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

Hope

" Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that. "

Eric Idle

English

How

" 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. "

" The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat. "

" The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester? "

" 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. "

" People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying. "

Eric Idle

Lying

Much

" I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man. "

" If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives? "

" It's such fun to take a lot of people and create something silly. "

" We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I do pool exercises, like weightlifting but underwater. I walk, I swim... I'm pretty fit for an old bloke. "