Eric Idle Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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.”

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

“My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough, but it got me to Cambridge - like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly.”

“I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.”

“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'.”

“Probably spending 12 years at boarding school - comedy became a survival gene. But I think some people are funny right off the bat, as soon as they can speak or be naughty.”

“I do pool exercises, like weightlifting but underwater. I walk, I swim... I'm pretty fit for an old bloke.”

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

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