Eric Idle

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man.

Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.