177 Quotes by Eric Idle

I think, after all, I’m happiest being a foreigner. Perhaps there should be a Homo sapiens passport? I feel less and less connected to individual states, and more and more connected to human beings.

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.

Always look on the brighter side of life.

I pay taxes in three countries, but can’t vote in any of them.

Pattycake, pattycake, baker’s man; good morning, madam, I’m a psychiatrist.

I will jump on anybody’s private plane at the drop of a hat. I’m an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.

A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate.

Typical Hollywood crowd – all the kids are on drugs, and all the adults are on roller skates.

I used to have a house in London, but couldn’t face 20 more years of St John’s Wood in the rain.