Eric Idle Quotes
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When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.
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As a child, I always wanted to be an actor. But as I grew older, the acting dream kind of faded away, and I took to studying a lot. A few years later, a relative of mine who really wanted me to try my hand at acting sent my photographs to a few production houses, and like they say, the rest is history.
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
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You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.
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At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.
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On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.
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I love drama. Drama is, like, my thing. I want a movie that will move something inside me, that's going to shift something and keep me thinking.
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Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
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I've got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.
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What I do is I do my job.
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The question Americans should ask is not whether a candidate is affiliated with a particular faith but rather whether that candidate's faith makes it more likely he or she will support policies that align with their values.
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The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.
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I've forgotten more about bad putting than all the lousy putters in the firmament combined. My mind has been twisted into an incurable, disturbing venue of bad speed and inadequate line. I just want to go out and not feel like I'm putting a Rubik's Cube with a flimsy piece of rope.
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Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
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In August of 2011, Steve Jobs, the tech icon who disrupted a string of traditional industries, called me and told me he thought he'd figured out a way to revolutionize TV. He invited me to come see it at Apple in a few months, but he died just six weeks later, and that meeting never came to pass.
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About Swami Vivekanada: I am not saying that the message of the Swami was the final word in our nationalism... But it was tremendous - something with an undying glory of its own. If you read his books, if you read his lectures, you are struck at once with his love of humanity, his patriotism, not abstract patriotism which came to us from Europe but of different nature altogether a more living thing, something which we feel within ourselves when we read his writings.
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I pick up other people's trash. I'm sort of obsessed.
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I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend. This gives me a genuine feeling of happiness. It is the practice of compassion.
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Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.
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Raven! What are you doing up so late? You have school tomorrow!"..."But I thought it was just the one time?
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The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?
