177 Quotes by Eric Idle

When I was 23 I started writing for I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again and was paid three guineas for every minute’s airtime.

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

I think you often learn from failure. Success just teaches you how great you were, but in fact it’s knowing what will fail that will help you to make the right choices.

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

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.

I’ve got soggy thighs. It must be dinner time.

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.

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.

My wife, Tania, is very big on dogs, so I’m always paying out to animal charities.