Eric Idle Quotes

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.

People look at me, and I dress a little unusually and they think, 'Oh you must be from California.' Of course, people in California think, 'Oh you must be from from Mars,' so, you know, your next-door neighbour is not necessarily the person that you are going to make a connection with.

It's not a stereotype if it's always true.

If I go to England, they know I'm not an Englishman, but most Americans think I'm English.

I just feel like Brits are honest - period. And that's what I like.

Maybe I'm misjudging people, but I feel like a lot of people still have an image of me in a bonnet at nine years old.

Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so universally dreadful.

I think that when people look at me, and they look at my height and my voice and my coloring, they automatically think, 'Tough.'

When people see a Spanish last name, they have an image in their head of what the typical Latina looks like. I think it's important on television to have different representations of people. And I'm so proud of being Latina. I love it.

The image of one country and its people amongst peoples of another country is largely created and sustained by the media.

This sort of thing may be tolerated by the French, but we are British, thank God.

I thought, from watching TV and stuff, that America was one place. They only show you L.A. and New York. They don't warn you about Iowa.

For the Americans, it is not attractive to hear what the similarities are between them and the Iranian people. It is attractive to hear how different the Iranians are.

I meet a lot of people when I do stand-up in the Middle East, and I don't know any terrorists, yet on TV and in the movies, 9 out of 10 are depicted as terrorists.

The people who relate to Playboy, both readers and people who produce it, are not the way the critics think they are.

Everyone in America thinks I'm American - and everyone in England seems to think I'm American.

Not long ago, every time I did a picture shoot for a magazine, the photographer would ask me to show up wearing jeans and cowboy boots. They seemed to think I was a hillbilly. Now it's different. Now they're not quite sure what to make of me. And I show up wearing whatever I want.

Brits have a peculiar sense of humour. I love it.

It's an old joke: All evil people in movies are British.

It's definitely a sensitive topic to discuss, but I have felt, since I signed with the WWE, I was in a unique position to reestablish how Arabs were perceived in the WWE and western media.

The great British public is renowned throughout the world for its sense of humour.

I do find it slightly offensive that everyone thinks that every New Zealander starred in either 'Lord of the Rings' or 'The Hobbit.'

There was a period of 10 years where the conventional wisdom was Black shows don't sell overseas, therefore nobody is interested.

People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.

It's unimaginable to meet a Pole or a German who does not know about the history of their country. But lots of English people don't know the difference between Britain and England.