Eddie Izzard Quotes - Page 4

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• You notice how they always put the fruit and veg at the entrance to the supermarket? You go in thinking 'this is a fresh shop, everything in here is FRESH! I will do well to shop here'. You never go straight to the bit with the toilet paper, loo brushes and such do you? You'd think 'this is a POO shop! Everything in here is themed on POO!

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  Thinking, Paper, Toilets

  "Eddie Izzard: Definite Article ", www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• I don't believe in God. So I'm a non-believer in the non-visible. I'm a believer in us; in humans.

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  Believe, Humans, Visible

  "I Believe That Eddie Izzard Is Our Future". Interview with Ali MacLean, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2010.

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• This is a world that's big enough for everyone. I like that message in that comes out of John Lasseter, and it comes out Pixar, it comes out of the Apple, Google, the Ben and Jerry's thing. These are American companies that send that message around that is good, that is healthy. And everyone goes, "That's the America I always believed in before Watergate."

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  Apples, America, Healthy

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

  Eddie Izzard

  Growing Up, Growing

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• And the druids, they were into sex and death in an interesting night-time telly sort of way.

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  Funny, Sex, Night

  "Eddie Izzard: Definite Article". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• If you're trying to get a bit of attention, you can smash up your hotel room or spend all your time going to openings or doing the gossip column thing. I just decided to do gigs in French, German, Spanish, and in America.

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  America, Gossip, Trying

  "Eddie Izzard, Force of Nature". Interview with Gerry Visco, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 19, 2014.

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• For me to put a look together, if it's going to be a boy look or a girl look or whatever, is quite a tricky thing to do. I'm not doing drag because drag is seen in a certain way and my comedy has got zero to do with what I'm wearing. I could wear an elephant suit and say the same thing.

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  Girl, Zero, Boys

  "Eddie Izzard, Force Of Nature". Interview with Gerry Visco, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 19, 2014.

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• Cable cars are fun - everyone gets on board and becomes a rhesus monkey.

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  Fun, Car, Boards

  "Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• It's not a bloody piano, it's a clarenARt...you weird talking person.

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  Music, Talking, Piano

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• I am two lesbians in a man's body.

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  Funny, Men, Two

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• I remember when I was being told about Watergate, and I thought, "Oh, America is not what I think America is." But America is what I think it is. It's just that it's two bits of it, and I don't go with the Republican bit of it. I go more with the Democratic bit.

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  Thinking, Two, America

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• Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

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  Music, Notes, Poetry Is

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• Two languages in one brain? No one can live at that speed!

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  Two, Brain, Language

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• Fox hunting, there's big fox hunting thing, there's arguments in Britain about fox hunting. And they go around. They obviously hunt foxes because the foxes, they attack chickens. And posh people have an alliance with chickens just like in the First World War.

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  War, Hunting, People

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• But the Dutch speak four languages and smoke marijuana!

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  Marijuana, Four, Dutch

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

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  Funny, Philosophy, Two

  "Eddie Izzard: Live at the Ambassadors". Comedy, 1993.

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• When I was seven, I said, "I want to act." When I was 10, I realized that films exist, and I wanted to be in them. Not a comedian, I wanted to be a dramatic actor. Films just seemed such fun, and like such a great thing to do.

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  Fun, Comedian, Actors

  "Eddie Izzard Talks TREASURE ISLAND, Possibility of a Sequel, and MUNSTERS Reboot MOCKINGBIRD LANE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 1, 2012.

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• I love the fact that trying is respected. The American Dream: if you try, if you build it, they will come. I love that. It's honorable.

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  Dream, Trying, Facts

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• You can't land on the moon and say, "Ooh, it's all sticky! It's covered in jam!

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  Moon, Land, Jam

  Twitter post from Feb 17, 2015

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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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  Taken, Trying, Dresses

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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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  Fighting, Thinking, Ideas

  "'I'm just a bloke talking crap'". Interview with Chris Wiegand, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2008.

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• This is your captain speaking. Welcome aboard flight...one, from...here to there. We'll be cruising at a height of ten feet, going up to twelve and a half feet if we see anything big. And our copilot today is a flask of coffee.

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  Coffee, Feet, Twelve

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• I'm an Action Transvestite.

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  Action, Transvestites

  "PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Eddie Izzard". Interview with Ernio Hernandez, www.playbill.com. April 02, 2003.

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• Cause if you're a transvestite, you're actually a male tomboy, that's where the sexuality is. Yeah, it's not drag queen, no; gay men have got that covered. This is male tomboy, and people do get that mixed up, they put transvestite there - no no no no! Little bit of a crowbar separation, thank you! And gay men, I think, would agree. It's male lesbian, that's really where it is, ok? Because... it's true! 'Cause most transvestites fancy girls, fancy women. So that's where it is.

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  Girl, Queens, Gay

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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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  Drama, Meals, Coke

  2004 In The Guardian, 17 May

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