Zitat des Tages von Eric Idle:
You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that's all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam's the same. All of us together make one completely insane person.
Probably spending 12 years at boarding school - comedy became a survival gene. But I think some people are funny right off the bat, as soon as they can speak or be naughty.
It's such fun to take a lot of people and create something silly.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.
You look just like you!
I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.
We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.
No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.
I won't read scripts because I have a limited amount of time. Why should I help other people do lame stuff when I can just go out and put on lame stuff of my own?
To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs, that's what the musical does best.
Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.
Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms.
I do pool exercises, like weightlifting but underwater. I walk, I swim... I'm pretty fit for an old bloke.
I'm drawn to things that aren't particularly popular at the time. I don't know why.
I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens.
