Eddie Izzard Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.”

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

“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.”