Eddie Izzard Quotes - Page 6

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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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  Thinking, Discovery, Important

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• I definitely have breast envy. When teenage girls were saying 'I wish I had breasts', I was thinking the same thing.

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  Girl, Teenage, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

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  Comedy, Well Known, Wells

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, tv.avclub.com. September 11, 2007.

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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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  Feelings, Comedian, Okay

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, tv.avclub.com. September 11, 2007.

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• You're gay, you sell books... you probably shag the books.

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  Book, Gay, Sells

  "Eddie Izzard: Unrepeatable". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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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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  Character, Psychosis, Play

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, tv.avclub.com. September 11, 2007.

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• San Francisco! City of dreaming spires, people live here... Golden Gate Bridge, ahh the Romans came here.

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  Dream, Bridges, Cities

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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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  People, Rehearsal, Gigs

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• That's no good, I can't steal from the fairly well off and give to the moderately impoverished! That's not gonna swing, is it?

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  Swings, Giving, Stealing

  "Eddie Izzard: Glorious". Documentary, Comedy, 1997.

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• People still talk about a British sense of humour, or French slapstick or how the Germans have no sense of humour - and it's just rubbish. I do strongly feel that we are all the bloody same.

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  People, Rubbish, Slapstick

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• If you get too well-known, you can never be a comedian's comedian, it just won't sit well. But I'm fine with that. I'm fine with that label.

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  Comedian, Labels, Well Known

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. September 11, 2007.

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• If you get too well-known in comedy, I do believe it blocks people from taking you in drama.

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  Block, Drama, Believe

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. September 11, 2007.

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• And the National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill people, people do," but I think the gun helps, you know? I think it helps. I just think just standing there going, "Bang!"
  "That's not going to kill too many people, is it? You'd have to be really dodgy on the heart to have that.

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  Heart, Thinking, Gun

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

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  Support, Weapons, Comedy

  "Straight talking" by Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2008.

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• I just play to progressive audiences. You know, if they're watching Discovery Channel, History Channel, that kind of thing, "Monty Python" have already laid the groundwork. They're known around the world. People like that kind of surrealist, left-field humor, and that's what I do. And "Saturday Night Live," a lot of American humor. "The Simpsons," above all, the weird, left-field humor, which I love. And sardonic. So that's all I'm doing. I find that audience, and they're in every developed country around the world.

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  Country, Night, Python

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• I think I'm actually a mainstream, popcorn-eating kid. I've always been that, so I'd sit there watching action movies and American moves before I watch other movies quite often because I am that kid. But I've pushed into the more alternative area because that's where it gets really interesting creatively.

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  Moving, Kids, Thinking

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• I don't believe that competitions are important.

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  Believe, Competition, Important

  "Acting up" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2004.

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• Makeup's just crazy, anyways. Native Americans used to wear it, and it did all right for them until, uh ... well, until you killed them all, I suppose.

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  Funny, Crazy, Native American

  "Eddie Izzard: Circle". Documentary, Comedy, 2000.

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• I'd like to have sex with myself.

  Eddie Izzard

  Sex

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• When I watched Braveheart I was in tears and I was rooting for the Scottish people

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  People, Tears, Scottish

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• "I've done your dog. It's got nine eyes down the side, I made his head all square, 15 legs. What do you think of that?" "Fido looks a bit weird."

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  Funny, Dog, Eye

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• There's not much makeup in the army, is there? No. They only have that nighttime look, and that's a bit slapdash, isn't it?

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  Funny, Army, Makeup

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• I've done a bit of Latin in my time...but I can control it.

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  Funny, Latin, Done

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

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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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  Jobs, Citizens, Immigrants

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

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

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  Pants, Comedy, Colour

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