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Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not. — Eric Idle

Never do things for money. It's always the things you do for love that turn out to pay the best. — 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

Reading Alan Zweibel makes me laugh out loud. And yet it is not a particularly funny name. — Eric Idle

What's brown and sounds like a bell? DUNG! — Eric Idle

Typical Hollywood crowd - all the kids are on drugs, and all the adults are on roller skates. — Eric Idle

Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man; good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist — Eric Idle

Elvis saved my life when I was 13 or 14. He saved all our lives. — Eric Idle

I've got soggy thighs. It must be dinner time. — Eric Idle

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

When I was 23 I started writing for I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again and was paid three guineas for every minute's airtime. — 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

I'm drawn to things that aren't particularly popular at the time. I don't know why. — Eric Idle

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

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

My first professional job was appearing in a disastrous theatre production of Oh, What a Lovely War in Leicester Rep, shortly after leaving Cambridge. — Eric Idle

We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make. — Eric Idle

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat! — Eric Idle

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

I used to have a house in London, but couldn't face 20 more years of St John's Wood in the rain. — Eric Idle

I'm more surprised than anyone that 'Spamalot's done so well. You can never predict what's going to be a hit. — Eric Idle

When, in 1966, I progressed to The Frost Report, I was paid ten guineas a minute. I was guaranteed three minutes a week, so this was good money. — Eric Idle

A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate — Eric Idle

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

I'm not careful with my money at all these days. I buy people a lot of dinners! — Eric Idle

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'. — Eric Idle

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

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. — 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

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

I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens. — Eric Idle

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

I never pay any attention to figures. — Eric Idle

The room was rococo. I had a strong sense of gilt. — Eric Idle

Know what I mean? Eh, eh, Nudge nudge, Say no more? — Eric Idle

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

People who are interested in money are really uninteresting people. They look like Donald Trump. — Eric Idle

Always look on the brighter side of life — Eric Idle

You look just like you! — 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

My wife, Tania, is very big on dogs, so I'm always paying out to animal charities. — Eric Idle

John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it. — Eric Idle

Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk. — Eric Idle

I pay taxes in three countries, but can't vote in any of them. — Eric Idle

You could write a joke in the pub at lunchtime and watch it performed on television that evening. — Eric Idle

I don't invest in the stock market, but I have pension funds - some in America and the UK. — Eric Idle