Eric Idle Quotes

You spend some time raising a child in London, carrying it around on one side of your body - it puts your back out!

Most of the day I work standing up, as I once read somewhere that it's the best position for the back.

I think a lot of women have back problems.

I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back.

The doctors say it dates back to a film where I had these huge prosthetic breasts because my character was breast-feeding. The weight of them, and of the baby, did my back in.

I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.

When competing a lot and traveling, I have problems with my lower back because I'm always on the plane or sitting. That's something that does bother me from time to time, but I try to stay on top of it.

I have very bad posture.

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.

Before coming here I had a minor back problem and I thought whenever I play Pakistan I get a back problem.

It's so, so awful for my entire body and my spine and my hands, and I have a perfectly good desk to write at, but I don't care. I love writing in bed.

I also work out because I have scoliosis. I have to maintain certain strength in my core.

Once a year my back will go out and it'll be... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the smallest thing. Like I could be leaning over the sink to brush my teeth in a weird way and it happens.

Playing the drums hurts my back.

Your core supports your spine and your torso. Everything you do depends on it.

Yes, I slouch. My mother tells me that.

You are the age of your spine. You are as flexible as your spine. That transfers to other areas of your life.

It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted.

Technology is transforming how we hold ourselves, contorting our bodies into what the New Zealand physiotherapist Steve August calls the 'iHunch.' I've also heard people call it 'text neck,' and in my work, I sometimes refer to it as 'iPosture.'

When you spend 12 hours a day in front of a computer, that can become your world.

Constant slumping increases the stress on the spine and joints, and can lead to headaches, neck and shoulder tension, and lower-back pain.

My body needs to be aligned when I am sleeping so for that I sometimes sleep on the floor.

I've had back problems basically my whole career.

I have to bend my knees now when I pick my son. No more bending from the waist.

Sometimes I log more than my fair share of hours on my tush - behind my desk, in the car, in front of the TV. And all that sitting can turn even the tightest buns into rice pudding.