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Eric Idle
6 quotes
“Always look on the bright side of life.”
Eric Idle (born 1943) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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.”
Eric Idle (born 1943) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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.”
Eric Idle (born 1943) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982)
“Basically, the Germans came to us and said, "We don't have a sense of humour.”
Eric Idle (born 1943) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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.”
Eric Idle (born 1943) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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.”
Eric Idle (born 1943) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Life of Python documentary (1990)