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Eric Idle Biography

Eric Idle (born 29 March 1943) is an English comedian, actor, voice actor, author, singer-songwriter, musician, writer and comedic composer. Idle is a member of the British surreal comedy group Monty Python, a member of The Rutles, and the author of the Broadway musical Spamalot.

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

Able, Artist, Artists, Executives, Paid, Studios

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

Money, Pay, Things, Turn, Turns

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

Bakers, Madam, Man, Men, Morning, Pattycake

Many years ago I also bought a house in Provence for about 70,000 francs. It had no electricity or running water, and no road leading to the house, but gradually we made improvements. It's my escape and I love it.

Electricity, Escape, Road, Running, Water, Years

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

Accurate, Complimentary, Political, Politician, Said, Witty

I always have a feeling you should move the playing field and the minute you know what you're doing, you're wrong. Therefore, I wanted us not to try to follow Spamalot immediately, but to do something different. This is perfect because it uses all the same skills, like story telling and lyric writing and music writing, but it's presenting it in a different form. And of course it gives me and John a nice chance to perform and show off which is also fun.

Chance, Field, Fun, Moving, Nice, Telling

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

English, People, Python, Think, Thinking, Truth

My father, who was a sergeant in the RAF during the Second World War, was killed in a hitchhiking accident while returning home on compassionate leave. As a result, my mother had to get work, as a nurse, and at seven the RAF put me into a boarding school and ex-orphanage called the Royal Wolverhampton School.

Father, Hitchhiking, Mother, Returning, School, War

I like doing live things and plays. You can perfect the laugh or extend the laugh, you can get them on a roll. Versus improv, which I hate. Put it all together. They're more vignettes. Improv makes me slightly anxious because I feel for them.

Hate, Improv, Laugh, Perfect, Play, Slightly

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.

Enjoy, Evolve, Happiness, Life, Pursue, Years

I try to not to be a celebrity as much as possible.

Celebrity, Possible, Trying

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.

Decide, Python, Special, Think, Thinking, Writers

I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.

Cambridge, Comedy, Locked, Tradition

You could feel the place going crazy because we hadn't been on stage together for maybe 35 years and the audience could just feel us in the darkness come on and they went nuts. It made the little hairs stand up on the back of my neck and we sang Sit on My Face, which I thought was wonderfully appropriate for George's memorial, and then we bowed and we showed our bare asses.

Audience, Bare, Crazy, Hair, Showed, Years

Subversion is what I do.

Subversion

I just believe in a huge universe of billions of miles.

Believe, Billions, Miles, Universe

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

Evening, Joke, Television, Watch, Watches, Writing

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

Bat, Bats, Blind, Circus, Good, Nudge Nudge

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.

Guess, Laugh, Person, Target Audience, Thinking, Writing

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

John, Offered, Pounds, Shut Up, Told, Took

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