Eric Idle Quotes

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

  Eric Idle

  Inspirational, Graduation, Simple

  "17 Funniest Lines from Monty Python Star Eric Idle’s Commencement Speech" By Gillian Frew, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2013.

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• I believe in the separation of church and planet.

  Eric Idle

  Believe, Church, Separation

  Eric Idle (2015). “The Writer's Cut”, p.5, Canelo

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• Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

  Eric Idle

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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

  Eric Idle

  Witty, Political, Politician

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• Bear in mind the simple rule, X squared to the power of two minus five over the seven point eight three times nineteen is approximately equal to the cube root of MCC squared divided by X minus a quarter of a third percent. Keep that in mind, and you can't go very far wrong.

  Eric Idle

  Simple, Two, Roots

  "Do Not Adjust Your Set". www.imdb.com. 1967 - 1969.

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• 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

  Years, Enjoy, Evolve

  "Eric Idle At Whitman College Commencement Jokes About Guns, Declares Irony Dead" by Tyler Kingkade, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2013.

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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

  Pay, Turns

  "Eric Idle: 'The BBC paid us £2,000 a series for Monty Python’". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 10, 2016.

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• Learn to trust yourself. That's very vital. ... Just stand with yourself. Remember, in his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only two paintings. I personally sold even fewer.

  Eric Idle

  Two, Funny Graduation, Painting

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

  Eric Idle

  Domestic Violence, Sticks, May

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• Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man; good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist

  Eric Idle

  Morning, Men, Bakers

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• People who are interested in money are really uninteresting people. They look like Donald Trump.

  Eric Idle

  People, Looks, Trump

  "Eric Idle: 'The BBC paid us £2,000 a series for Monty Python'". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 10, 2016.

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• 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

  America, Freedom Of Speech, News

  Interview with TashaR, www.avclub.com. March 19, 2003.

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

  Eric Idle

  Tragedy, Trying, Comedy

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• Know what I mean? Eh, eh, Nudge nudge, Say no more?

  Eric Idle

  Mean, Nudge Nudge, Nudge

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• We destroy icons - that's what we do.

  Eric Idle

  Icons

  "Interview: John Cleese and Eric Idle, founding members of Monty Python". Interview with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. February 18, 2016.

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

  Eric Idle

  Getting Older, Hats, Cry

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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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  Mother, Kids, Thinking

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

  Eric Idle

  Lying, People, Telling The Truth

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• 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

  Ironic, Age, Library

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• 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

  Pounds, Shut Up

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Eric Idle

  Python, Monty

  "Review: Eric Idle's silly, wonderful tour" By L.D. Meagher, www.cnn.com. March 8, 2005.

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• A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat!

  Eric Idle

  Nudge Nudge, Bats, Circus

  Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones (2009). “Monty Python Live!”, Hyperion

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• 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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  Ambition, Interesting, World

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• I think you often learn from failure. Success just teaches you how great you were, but in fact it's knowing what will fail that will help you to make the right choices.

  Eric Idle

  Thinking, Knowing, Choices

  "Not The Messiah (He's A Very Naughty Boy) - Eric Idle interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Everybody has their own free choice to do what they want.

  Eric Idle

  Choices, Want, Free Choice

  "Interview: John Cleese and Eric Idle, founding members of Monty Python". Interview with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. February 18, 2016.

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