177 Quotes by Eric Idle

Never do things for money. It's always the things you do for love that turn out to pay the best.

Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.

Know what I mean? Eh, eh, Nudge nudge, Say no more?

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

I didn't want to be big Mr. Ego walking around.

It's such fun to take a lot of people and create something silly.

Monty Python only became valuable when it was sold to Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in America. They didn't pay much either, but the series has been shown repeatedly, which led to lucrative tapes, CDs and DVDs.

People can tell the truth much more freely when they're apparently lying.

I think comedy's often the little and the large, isn't it?