Eric Idle (born 29 March 1943) is an English actor, comedian, songwriter, musician, screenwriter and playwright. He was a member of the British comedy group Monty Python and the parody rock band the Rutles.

Quotes

• Always look on the bright side of life.
  • Song written for the film, Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)

• Typical Hollywood crowd - all the kids are on drugs, and all the adults are on roller skates.
  • Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982)

• American Beer is a lot like making love in a canoe - it's fucking close to water.
  • Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982)

• Basically, the Germans came to us and said, "We don't have a sense of humour."
  • Answering the question "Why did you do two episodes in German?" on an HBO (March 1998) Python reunion special.

• I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.
  • On his childhood years in a boarding school. From Bob McCabe The Pythons' Autobiography of the Pythons (2003).

• I think basically what we were doing was laughing at the authoritarian figures we grew up under. ...you know it’s nonsense, this assumed authority that's been given to you by teachers, by military figures, by police, by judges, and it's all pretending, "we know what's going on on this planet" and it's all bullshit. And I think that Python was quite good at getting rid of those inhibitions, and I think it's why it's still appealing to the young.
  • Life of Python documentary (1990)

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