Words matter. These are the best Eddie Izzard Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It’s just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
I don’t believe that competitions are important.
Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They’re just pretty people singing music written by others.
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.
I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
I’m a one-man idiot.
Animals in the wild are lean, and I think we should be too.
I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.
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’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.
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.
If you’ve never seen an elephant ski, you’ve never been on acid.
Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It’s not a great weapon of support.
Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion – they’re two words which are both… different. In spelling.
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.
There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.
They tend to come out a colour called ‘Pants left in wash’
