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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
I've got soggy thighs. It must be dinner time.
— 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
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
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
A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat!
— 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
No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.
— 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
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
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
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