177 Quotes by Eric Idle

Elvis saved my life when I was 13 or 14. He saved all our lives.

My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough, but it got me to Cambridge - like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly.

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat!

The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.

I liked doing live things, and with the Circus we had a live audience.

John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it.

I hate movies. They're so boring. So tedious.

It just seems to me that there's no particular reason comedy albums should be dead. There's a lot to laugh at. We have very funny people, still.

You get interviewed when you're out promoting something.