Eric Idle Quotes

I enjoy comedy but it can become wearisome.

I was voted Most Humorous in my senior class in high school, and I was a fan of comedy, my whole life. I never got into the horror genre, and action was fine, but I just loved comedy. Any comedy I could get my hands on, I would. I watched Saturday Night Live religiously. I've just been a fan of comedy, my whole life.

I love comedy. I'm not known for comedy, but I love it. I've done a lot of it, in my lifetime. But most people are surprised to hear that I made a funny movie.

I grew up watching comedy. It was among all the geeky things that I did.

I just respected comedians whether they were or they weren't, from, you know, new or old.

I think I'm not uber into the comedy scene, but I love to laugh, especially in our business, where you're always front and center over an extremely, sometimes overly-critical live audience. I think it helps to laugh.

I've always loved comedy and growing up it was the comedies that I really responded to. So I don't know how it turned out that once I started acting that I started getting a certain kind of role, that I never saw myself as growing up, so I really love when I get an opportunity to play a [comedian] role.

I just loved comedy as a kid and I think at some point, it just occurred to me that you could try it, and I did.

I love comedy. If I could be a comedian - well, I probably would not take that job because it seems really hard, but I wish I could be.

Comedy is not my world. It's difficult for me, but sometimes you just have to go with it and have a good time.

Comedy has always been something I love, but for some reason - probably because of the British accent - I've always been pushed toward more period work.

I love comedy. David's Lynch the only person I've worked with more than once who sees me as a specific thing - he sees me as the sexy bimbo, in ways, and he also sees me as Lucille Ball. Actually, Nick Cage and I did Lucy and Ricky in two scenes in Wild at heart that were cut because the movie was four hours long.

You know, I'm a big comedy fan.

I grew up loving David Letterman and Pee-wee Herman, but as far as live performance comedy, all I knew were the Jerry Seinfeld-type comedians of the world, and that's what I thought live performance comedy was all about.

What turned me on to comedy was - well, first of all, I like being able to laugh, I like people who can make me laugh.

I think comedy in the last 5-7 years is as good as it's ever been in America. I like it when people push it. You go through periods where people did not push the envelope. The more you push it, the funnier you get.

We live in a fun time with so many ways to express yourself, you would be crazy to be a comedian and not check them all out.

I used to think of myself as a comedian. I've always admired comedians. Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There's a liberation in that.

I didn't really get into comedy until a couple months before I started doing comedy.

One of the great things with comedy is that there's no such thing as a mediocre comedy; it's either uproarious or crap. That's the problem.

Comedy is essentially made by young men, or older men with some form of arrested development, for young men or immature older men.

I love the idea of doing comedy, whether it's action comedy or just straight comedy. It's such a big, new world for me that I'm starting to realize that any character that I relate to, in any way, shape or form, or that I have any appreciation for, given enough preparation, I can find that person.

Comedy is just complaining in an entertaining way, Enterplaining.

A lot of comedy is really DIY. You're kind of doing it yourself.

I'm just going to keep doing comedy because I don't know what else to do. I have no other applicable skills.