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.
Eric Idle

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

A website can be very time-intensive, but I'd love to have one where people can contribute to it - like invent islands and make their own flags, and their own laws. I think that'd be kind of fun.
Eric Idle

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

I like being a foreigner. For me, to live in California is very pleasant - I'm more comfortable not feeling a part of everything, not feeling responsible for the government or the roads or the health system.
Eric Idle

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'.
Eric Idle

I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens. Eric Idle

Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms.
Eric Idle

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.
Eric Idle

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

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

You look just like you!
Eric Idle

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.
Eric Idle

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

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.
Eric Idle

Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.
Eric Idle

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.
Eric Idle

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.
Eric Idle

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

People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.
Eric Idle

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

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