Latest Eric Idle Quotes from Interviews

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• I get to be the first doctor in the family [because of the honorary degree they're giving me].

  Eric Idle

  Doctors, Giving, Degrees

  Interview with Kyle Seasly, whitmanwire.com. May 13, 2013.

• 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.

  Eric Idle

  Hate, Play, Perfect

  "Eric Idle: the Pio Interview". Interview with Kyle Seasly, whitmanwire.com. May 13, 2013.

• I hate movies. They're so boring. So tedious.

  Eric Idle

  Hate, Boring, Tedious

  "Eric Idle: the Pio Interview". Interview with Kyle Seasly, whitmanwire.com. May 13, 2013.

• I liked doing live things, and with the Circus we had a live audience.

  Eric Idle

  Circus, Audience

  "Eric Idle: the Pio Interview". Interview with Kyle Seasly, whitmanwire.com. May 13, 2013.

• You get interviewed when you're out promoting something.

  Eric Idle

  Promoting

  Interview with Kyle Seasly, whitmanwire.com. May 13, 2013.

• One of the reasons we moved to L.A. in the first place [was] so that it was no big deal that I was in show business. We decided if we move[d] to L.A., then everyone in one way or another was involved in it.

  Eric Idle

  Moving, Way, Firsts

  "Eric Idle: the Pio Interview". Interview with Kyle Seasly, whitmanwire.com. May 13, 2013.

• Don't want to turn into mini-me.

  Eric Idle

  Want, Mini Me, Turns

  Interview with Kyle Seasly, whitmanwire.com. May 13, 2013.

• I didn't want to be big Mr. Ego walking around.

  Eric Idle

  Ego, Want, Bigs

  Interview with Kyle Seasly, whitmanwire.com. May 13, 2013.

• When we graduated [ from Cambridge], we were grabbed right into television. I was grabbed straight into the practice of writing comedy. It was all writing and performing. You wrote something in order for you to perform it.

  Eric Idle

  Writing, Order, Practice

  Source: whitmanwire.com

• There's no gap between the writer and the performer, which is what I think makes [Monty] Python unique. Five or six people who write Python and five or six who act it. That's what makes it unique.

  Eric Idle

  Writing, Unique, Thinking

  Interview with Kyle Seasly, whitmanwire.com. May 13, 2013.

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

  Eric Idle

  Comedy, Tradition, Cambridge

  Interview with Kyle Seasly, whitmanwire.com. May 13, 2013.

• I don't necessarily know much about comedy, I don't spend a lot of time watching it. Mainly because all my life for about 50 years I've had comedy.

  Eric Idle

  Years, Comedy, Knows

  Interview with Kyle Seasly, whitmanwire.com. May 13, 2013.

• Even if you've written something for print, I think it's good to try [it] out on someone because it changes. You can think it's hilarious and they can tell you it's not.

  Eric Idle

  Thinking, Trying, Print

  Interview with Kyle Seasly, whitmanwire.com. May 13, 2013.

• I interviewed Matt [Stone] and Trey [Parker], actually, and I got to ask them questions. I love them deeply because they appeared dressed as J-Lo and someone else [who had worn the same scandalous dresses the year before at the Oscars]. They confessed they were on acid.

  Eric Idle

  Years, Dresses, Stones

  Interview with Kyle Seasly, whitmanwire.com. May 13, 2013.

• I don't like animation. I hate animation, actually.

  Eric Idle

  Hate, I Hate, Animation

  "Eric Idle: the Pio Interview". Interview with Kyle Seasly, whitmanwire.com. May 13, 2013.

• Filming a pirate film is always good fun, with ships and indecent clothing.

  Eric Idle

  Fun, Pirate, Ships

  Interview with Kyle Seasly, whitmanwire.com. May 13, 2013.

• At Cambridge, you have to kiss the vice-chancellor's fingers. But I missed out on that, 'cause I was doing a matinee. I don't want to kiss a strange man's fingers anyway.

  Eric Idle

  Kissing, Men, Vices

  "Eric Idle: the Pio Interview". Interview with Kyle Seasly, whitmanwire.com. May 13, 2013.

• I'm not really a celebrity; I'm just vestigially left over from doing stuff from before.

  Eric Idle

  Stuff, Left

  "Eric Idle: the Pio Interview". Interview with Kyle Seasly, whitmanwire.com. May 13, 2013.

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

  Eric Idle

  Trying

  Interview with Kyle Seasly, whitmanwire.com. May 13, 2013.

• I think comedy's often the little and the large, isn't it?

  Eric Idle

  Thinking, Littles, Comedy

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

• Executives do not on the whole do well with comedy. They can't understand it, they can't read it, they can't spot it.

  Eric Idle

  Comedy, Spots, Wells

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

• 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.

• The idea that we evolved with these thoughts is actually very fascinating - to me.

  Eric Idle

  Ideas, Fascinating

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

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

  Eric Idle

  Believe, Miles, Billions

  Source: www.abc.net.au

• There's animals like us existing and thinking and giving interviews on Australian television.

  Eric Idle

  Animal, Thinking, Giving

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