Eric Idle Quotes
John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.
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So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.
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I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
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I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
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'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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The 'Outlander' fans are super-passionate.
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My idea of fast food is a mallard.
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I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well.
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.
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As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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Non-fiction contains facts, fiction contains truth.
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I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.
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I was scared when I went to Conde Nast. I had heard horror stories about how they used you up and then spit you out and went on. But there was this great history of photography that had been done there.
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There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the part. I chose that my character hadn't been married, he'd worked his way up the chain of command. For a small cameo role, I gave it a lot of thought.
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John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it.
