177 Quotes by 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.

Reading Alan Zweibel makes me laugh out loud. And yet it is not a particularly funny name.

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.

The next step will be for the colonists on Mars to throw off the hand of the United States. There will be this wonderful historical irony. When the people on Mars write a declaration of independence saying, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident...', the US will be rather pissed off

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

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.

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

I destroy icons - that's what I do.

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