Eddie Izzard Quotes

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Eddie Izzard

Profession : Comedian

Birth : February 7, 1962

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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They tend to come out a colour called 'Pants left in wash'

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

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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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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 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 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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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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Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

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