Eric Idle Quotes

“Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.”

Eric Idle

“sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will make me cry by myself in a corner for hours.”

Eric Idle

“Typical Hollywood crowd - all the kids are on drugs, and all the adults are on roller skates.”

Eric Idle

Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl

“Basically, the Germans came to us and said, "We don't have a sense of humour."”

Eric Idle

Answering the question "Why did you do two episodes in German?" on an HBO March 1998 Python reunion special.

“I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.”

Eric Idle

On his childhood years in a boarding school. The Pythons' Autobiography of the Pythons (2003) by Bob McCabe.

“Always look on the bright side of life.”

Eric Idle

Source: Song written for the film, Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)