Eric Idle

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).