Eddie Izzard Quotes

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  If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.

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• We must have been hunters and gatherers but some of us were just waiters and hopers.

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• Drama is a complete meal, vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates. It’s a slow burn thing. It’s got an arc. Comedy is more like coke.

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• It’s my manifest destiny to wear a skirt in all countries.

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• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there’s a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

   

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• I try to keep performing as much as possible – I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.

   

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• I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

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• So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!

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• Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They’re just pretty people singing music written by others.

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• MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.

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• I’m quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia – which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn’t have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts.

   

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• I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.

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• If you’ve never seen an elephant ski, you’ve never been on acid.

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• They tend to come out a colour called ‘Pants left in wash’

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• Never put a sock in a toaster.

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• I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.

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• I wanna live ’til I die, no more, no less.

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• I’m a one-man idiot.

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• Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It’s not a great weapon of support.

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• I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.

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Eddie Izzard (35)

Birth:	7th February, 1962
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor, Comedian

About

Eddie Izzard is an English stand-up comedian, actor and writer. His comedy style takes the form of rambling, whimsical monologue and self-referential pantomime. He had a starring role in the television series The Riches as Wayne Malloy and has appeared in many films such as Ocean's Twelve, Ocean's Thirteen, Mystery Men, Shadow of the Vampire, The Cat's Meow, Across the Universe, and Valkyrie.

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