Eddie Izzard Quotes

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

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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 don’t believe that competitions are important.

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

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

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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 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 wanted to be less well-known in comedy.

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

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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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• 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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• 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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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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