Always Look on the Bright Side of Life Quotes

“I think, after all, I’m happiest being a foreigner. Perhaps there should be a Homo sapiens passport? I feel less and less connected to individual states, and more and more connected to human beings.”
― Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography

“Laughter is the only sane response to pathological lying.”
― Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

“So, what have I learned over my long and weird life?
Well, first, that there are two kinds of people, and I don’t much care for either of them. Second, when faced with a difficult choice, either way is often best. Third, always leave a party when people begin to play the bongos.”
― Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

“Life has a very simple plot,
First you’re here
And then you’re not.”
― Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography

“always leave a party when people begin to play the bongos.”
― Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography

“If one of the best ways to appreciate life is to have an unhappy childhood, I was very fortunate.”
― Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

“I have British teeth. They are like British politics: they go in all directions at once.”
― Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

“Ours was an extraordinary generation, born into a devastated world, exhausted from six years of total war. Sixty million died. Nowadays the young think times are tough if they can’t get an Internet connection. They’re right; times are tough, but there was a time before it all began to go to shit, when it all really was shit. Our generation was born into that time. It was called World War II.”
― Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography

“Not that I want to go, of course. I’ll be like the rest of you, clinging on desperately and screaming for more morphine.”
― Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography

“I bring messages and thanks from the others. Terry Gilliam sadly can't be with us tonight as they won't let him show his ass, which has been very favorably compared with Spielberg's ass.
Graham Chapman can't be with us tonight, as sadly he is still dead. And John Cleese is finishing a movie.
He has to get it back to Blockbuster by tomorrow.”
― Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

“After the show Humphrey Barclay, a highly talented Harrovian Head Boy who could act, direct, and draw cartoons, introduced me to John Cleese, a very tall man with black hair and piercing dark eyes. They were very complimentary and encouraged me to audition for the Footlights. I had never heard of this University Revue Club, founded in 1883 to perform sketches and comedy shows, but it seemed like a fun thing to do, and a month later Jonathan Lynn and I were voted in by the Committee, after performing to a packed crowd of comedy buffs in the Footlights’ Club Room. Jonathan, a talented actor, writer, and jazz drummer, would go on to direct Pass the Butler, my first play in the West End, and also write and direct Nuns on the Run, a movie with me and Robbie Coltrane. The audition sketch I had written for us played surprisingly well and, strange details, in the front row, lounging on a sofa, laughing with some Senior Fellows, was the author Kingsley Amis, next to the brother of the soon-to-be-infamous Guy Burgess, who would shortly flee the country, outed as perhaps the most flamboyant of all the Cambridge spies—for whenever he was outrageously drunk in Washington, which was every night, he would announce loudly to everybody that he was a KGB spy. Nobody believed him”
― Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography

“By Christmas 1975 the divorce fairy was hovering. My marriage was breaking up, and no wonder. Lyn was a lovely woman and a good mother and she certainly deserved better. Not surprisingly, my faithlessness was rewarded by hers and she left me and my two-year-old son in London to spend Christmas in France. I did learn that infidelity is not a good basis for a marriage. Best to disappoint one woman at a time. Sad, but with my lovely blond son for company, I got an unexpected boost. On a snowy Christmas Eve, two men delivered an enormous thing wrapped in brown paper from a lorry. We ripped the paper off to find a fully stacked jukebox filled with all George’s favorite records. A note said, Every home should have one, Happy Christmas, love George and Olivia”
― Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography

“The birth of my son in 1973 was the most emotional experience of my life so far. We called him Carey after Carey Harrison, my friend from Cambridge with whom I’d first traveled to France, and as I drove away from the hospital, the Joni Mitchell song of the same name came on the radio. I burst into tears”
― Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography

“foolishly optimistic,”
― Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography

“One day the sun will die, one day the galaxy will die, one day the entire Universe will die. I’m not feeling too good myself. So, what have I learned over my long and weird life? Well, firstly, that there are two kinds of people, and I don’t much care for either of them. Secondly, when faced with a difficult choice, either way is often best. Thirdly, always leave a party when people begin to play the bongos.”
― Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography

“On our way, we got lost and passersby denied all knowledge of the location of the camp. We finally arrived as it was getting dark, and they said it was closing. “Tell them we’re Jewish,” said Graham.”
― Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography

“Men come in three sizes: small, medium, and extremely fucked up.”
― Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography

“the best moment in showbiz is when it is over. It’s somewhat like sex in that regard…”
― Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography

“Sweden advertised it as the movie so funny that Norwegians weren’t allowed to see it.”
― Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography

“Once you’re in the circus you’re all in the circus, and of course it turns out that they are real people too.”
― Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography