Eddie Izzard Quotes

• Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion – they’re two words which are both… different. In spelling.

   

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• If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.

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• There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

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• My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It’s just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.

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• In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you’re just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you’ve got a twin brother who’s also a stand-up.

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• If you go down as a comedian’s comedian, that’s basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you’re doing okay.

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• I don’t know what it’s like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won’t do.

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• I don’t believe that competitions are important.

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• Cats have a scam going – you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that’s the deal.

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• I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.

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• Animals in the wild are lean, and I think we should be too.

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• I mean, sometimes… a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don’t deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don’t even notice that that’s the thing.

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• I use a Bruce Lee technique: ‘The way of no way.’ He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything – to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.

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• I’d be happy to be taken as a woman – and that’s what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn’t going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I’d change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.

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  I hate the idea of getting attached to someone, and then they pass on.

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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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