177 Quotes by Eric Idle

I'm not really a celebrity; I'm just vestigially left over from doing stuff from before.

I get to be the first doctor in the family [because of the honorary degree they're giving me].

Executives do not on the whole do well with comedy. They can't understand it, they can't read it, they can't spot it.

I don't necessarily know much about comedy, I don't spend a lot of time watching it. Mainly because all my life for about 50 years I've had comedy.

I interviewed Matt [Stone] and Trey [Parker], actually, and I got to ask them questions. I love them deeply because they appeared dressed as J-Lo and someone else [who had worn the same scandalous dresses the year before at the Oscars]. They confessed they were on acid.

I don't like animation. I hate animation, actually.

Everybody has their own free choice to do what they want...

The idea that we evolved with these thoughts is actually very fascinating - to me.

What's brown and sounds like a bell? DUNG!