Eric Idle
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
Eric Idle

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

Eric Idle
Eric Idle

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

Eric Idle
Eric Idle

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
Eric Idle

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

Eric Idle
Eric Idle

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.

Eric Idle
Eric Idle

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
Eric Idle

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
Eric Idle

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

Eric Idle
Eric Idle

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

Eric Idle
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
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
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
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
Eric Idle

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

Eric Idle
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
Eric Idle

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

Eric Idle
Eric Idle

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.

Eric Idle
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
Eric Idle

You look just like you!