Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not. Eric Idle More Quotes by Eric Idle More Quotes From Eric Idle I like doing live things and plays. You can perfect the laugh or extend the laugh, you can get them on a roll. Versus improv, which I hate. Put it all together. They're more vignettes. Improv makes me slightly anxious because I feel for them. Eric Idle hate perfect play You could feel the place going crazy because we hadn't been on stage together for maybe 35 years and the audience could just feel us in the darkness come on and they went nuts. It made the little hairs stand up on the back of my neck and we sang Sit on My Face, which I thought was wonderfully appropriate for George's memorial, and then we bowed and we showed our bare asses. Eric Idle crazy nuts years I liked doing live things, and with the Circus we had a live audience. Eric Idle circus audience I hate movies. They're so boring. So tedious. Eric Idle tedious boring hate We never have that thought! The whole object is to bite off more than you can chew. John [Du Prez] always says, Eric thinks of something completely insane and insists we go in that direction. It's the correct way to look at things and the correct place to start, I think. Eric Idle insane way thinking So it became in my mind a nine-carol service; an oratorio and orchestral concert all in one, but with narration. That's something I've learned about, because it's the story that keeps you in there. I wrote a libretto and I gave it to John Du Prez. We normally don't work in this fashion but I said off you go, and he went off for about three months. He brought me back this demo which blew my mind. Eric Idle fashion mind years I'm not really a celebrity; I'm just vestigially left over from doing stuff from before. Eric Idle left stuff I think comedy's often the little and the large, isn't it? Eric Idle comedy littles thinking Executives do not on the whole do well with comedy. They can't understand it, they can't read it, they can't spot it. Eric Idle spots wells comedy The idea that we evolved with these thoughts is actually very fascinating - to me. Eric Idle fascinating ideas There's animals like us existing and thinking and giving interviews on Australian television. Eric Idle animal giving thinking We destroy icons - that's what we do. Eric Idle icons My wife, Tania, is very big on dogs, so I'm always paying out to animal charities. Eric Idle wife dog animal I get to be the first doctor in the family [because of the honorary degree they're giving me]. Eric Idle doctors degrees giving If you're famous, you have to [be overly generous], otherwise people say, "Eric Idle came in and only left me $4." I always tip more than people expect. Eric Idle idle eric people I try to not to be a celebrity as much as possible. Eric Idle trying At Cambridge, you have to kiss the vice-chancellor's fingers. But I missed out on that, 'cause I was doing a matinee. I don't want to kiss a strange man's fingers anyway. Eric Idle kissing vices men Don't want to turn into mini-me. Eric Idle mini-me turns want One of the reasons we moved to L.A. in the first place [was] so that it was no big deal that I was in show business. We decided if we move[d] to L.A., then everyone in one way or another was involved in it. Eric Idle way moving firsts There's no gap between the writer and the performer, which is what I think makes [Monty] Python unique. Five or six people who write Python and five or six who act it. That's what makes it unique. Eric Idle unique writing thinking
