Eric Idle Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“It just seems to me that there's no particular reason comedy albums should be dead. There's a lot to laugh at. We have very funny people, still.”

“You look just like you!”

“I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man.”

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

“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.”

“Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.”

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

“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.”

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

“It's such fun to take a lot of people and create something silly.”