Eric Idle

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.

Always look on the bright side of life - Eric Idle

Eric Idle (born 29 March 1943) is an English actor, comedian, songwriter, musician, screenwriter and playwright. He was a member of the British comedy group Monty Python and the parody rock band the Rutles.

Quotes

• Always look on the bright side of life.
  • Song written for the film, Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)

• Typical Hollywood crowd - all the kids are on drugs, and all the adults are on roller skates.
  • Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982)

• American Beer is a lot like making love in a canoe - it's fucking close to water.
  • Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982)

• Basically, the Germans came to us and said, "We don't have a sense of humour."
  • 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.
  • On his childhood years in a boarding school. From Bob McCabe The Pythons' Autobiography of the Pythons (2003).