Eric Idle

Eric Idle's biography

Eric Idle is 79 years old film actor born at South Shields. He was born on Monday 29th of March 1943. According to year of birth 1943 he belongs to Silent Generation. Birthday on 29th of March means he is Aries. Aries is the most active sign of Zodiac, one born with this sign is a very quick learner, aggressive and passionate.He was married 2 times.

Eric Idle's spouse

He is married to Tania Kosevich

He is native british english speaker. He is citizen of United Kingdom. His primary profession is to be film actor. You can know him also as actor, comedian, screenwriter, novelist, singer-songwriter, playwright, writer, guitarist, lyricist, film director. He is recently known as television actor.

Eric Idle's family

Eric Idle's spouse

Eric Idle's ex spouses

Lyn Ashley

Eric Idle and Lyn Ashley have been together since 1969 for 6 years. She is known as actor. His ex spouse was born on Monday 18th of March 1940 in Townsville.

Eric Idle's schools

We found 3 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: University of Cambridge, Pembroke College, Royal Wolverhampton School.

Eric Idle's career

His main focus is to be film actor. He is also a member of Monty Python. Maybe you are curious what instrument does he play ? He plays guitar.

Awards and competitions

Eric Idle's Awards

• John Du Prez and his musical, "Monty Python's Spamalot" at the Nightblue Performing Arts Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2014 Joseph Jefferson Non-Equity Award for Musical Production.
• On October 15, 2009 , Eric and the other surviving members of Monty Python accepted the BAFTA Lifetime Achievement Award on the 40th Anniversary of Monty Python in New York.
• He and John Du Prez were awarded the 2010 Musical Score for "Monty Python's Spamalot" at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

Eric Idle's quotes

• John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it.
• [on gay marriage] It's about time they suffered too.
• [on his favourite sexual position] Flat on my back with my wallet open.
• If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?
• There was a time when we were almost universally hated by large sections of society. Now that we are the cuddly old farts of comedy, I rather miss the hatred.
• We couldn't get [Life of Brian (1979)] made then. We looked and looked for money and we couldn't find anyone to back it. Only George Harrison would back it - and that's because he mortgaged his house.
• Americans like to think Python is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.
• The odd thing is I knew that if [Spamalot] was going to be successful it would have to appeal to people who weren't just Python fans. What happened was that Middle America discovered Python through Spamalot.
• I've been trying to write musicals since I did The Mikado (1987) with Jonathan Miller and the ENO in 1987. I'd do new gags each night. I thought, "I like this - we should find a subject". It took me about 20 years to find a subject.
• [asked why Terry Gilliam insisted on him shaving his head for The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)] Pure sexual jealousy.
• [1975] A comedian must never be vulnerable. The great comedians are always apparently invulnerable on stage although off stage they were not such supermen.
• I'm just trying to earn enough to get my daughter through college and my wife through collagen.
• Comedians are not normal people. It is not a normal thing to do. You don't become a comedian without some early traumatizing experience, so comedy is also a coping mechanism.
• No gentleman talks to anyone before noon. One of the reasons I write alone is that I can't bear speaking to anyone first thing in the morning.
• [on his education] I did S Level. Nobody's ever done S Level, because it's above A Level and I once found somebody else who'd done it and we reckoned we were the only two people in England who ever did S Level!
• Of course I'm not ashamed to lose it in public anymore, but a blubbing comic just ain't entertaining.
• We [Brits] like to call it [soccer] "football" because, unlike American football, it is played with the feet.
• [on meeting George Harrison for the first time] He never shut up. Thank God.
• Secondary music is really bad for you. It's worse than smoking. At least smoking doesn't stop your thinking, but Muzak makes me resentful and gloomy.
• He [Bill Murray] has such a lived-in face, and how rare it is to see a decent wrinkle on the screen. Hollywood is into facial prejudice in a big way. Age denial is the national sport.
• [on the BBC in the 1960s] It was fabulous. It was the golden age of executives, there weren't any.
• The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat. I used to make fun of Richard Attenborough for crying. Now I'm turning into him. I can't remember anybody's names, so I call everybody "darling" and I cry all the time.
• I can be very angry and acerbic. Therapy is really useful. It gives me a triangulation on myself: "I was this asshole the other day; why did I do that?"
• I like being a foreigner. For me to live in California is very pleasant - I'm more comfortable not feeling a part of everything, not feeling responsible for the government or the roads or the health system.
• I've lost friends because I was just being ironic. I'm trying to eschew irony, but it's very hard. It's embedded deep in my bones.
• People my age are terrified of the idea of downloading. They're scared.
• [on Los Angeles] A silly town where you don't have to take anything particularly seriously.
• I was more well read than most teenagers because at boarding school there was nothing else to do in the evenings. I didn't have a fucking youth! In the evenings we did prep, then cleaned the school.
• [on receiving abuse on Twitter] I tell them to fuck off. I find that works.
• [on Graham Chapman] I was not really that close to him, as a pal, because he never revealed very much of himself, there was a lot hidden. It's hard to be friendly with somebody who's hidden.
• At boarding school there was nothing else to do but work and after a certain age it became interesting. After sixteen when you're doing A Level (I did history, geography and English literature), reading is your total escape.
• Life doesn't happen like that. You don't sit and think, 'I'm going to have a career now.' Things just happen.
• [2017; as John Cleese explains why people should have cats instead of children] And also, they are the only ones you can really pussy-grab.
• I was born on 29 March 1943 in Harton Hospital, South Shields. My mother was born in the same hospital, but not at the same time, interestingly enough.
• I learned at boarding school to always quit [running] while you are behind [in physical education class], and then sneak off behind the bogs for a smoke.
• [January 2017; asked about why his leg is in a cast] I fell over looking under the bed for a guitar case and broke my damn ankle. Not easy to do and quite painful.
• [asked if he has taken part in a London park run yet] No gentleman ever runs...
• I think Roy Hodgson should replace David Cameron because he only lost European football and not the whole of Europe.
• I just got back from a lovely stay in Mexico. Such kind and generous and lovely people. Back to Trumpism and its hatred for immigrants. But then, I am one.
• [2018, on The Meaning of Life (1983)] It's got some very great parts, which are still very offensive, I'm happy to say.
• Just ordered a quick lunch of crab cake and chips and they misheard and brought me cup cakes and chips. Very bizarre meal!
• I was going to see Cats but I'm afraid I can't pronounce the letter B.
• I didn't like talking to people in the morning - I still don't. I think you shouldn't talk to anyone before lunch time, no gentleman would do that.
• Nothing would persuade me to get a tattoo...but then I'm a cowardly oldie.
• I have Shoppophobia, which is fear of shopping.
• [2019] I was once 6 foot and half an inch. I was shocked to discover I was now only 5 foot 11.
• [after mentioning he owned both a hamster and a guinea pig, he is asked if these animals pee on their owners] Only if trained.
• [2022, asked about the increasingly conservative John Cleese] He's who he is now. The thing I try to remember is the good times when we were young and funny.
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