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Eddie Izzard Inspirational Quotes (88)

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In the UK a lot of people don't like to try. There's a different cultural thing. Here [in USA] if you try and fail, you get up again and start again and keep going. People respect you for it. Even if you keep failing, they respect the tenacity.
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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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I did bronze survival swimming. I could save people in a bronzey kind of way.
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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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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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You’ve got to believe you can be a standup before you can be a standup. You have to believe you can act before you can act. You have to believe you can be an astronaut before you can be an astronaut. You’ve got to believe.
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Horseshoes are lucky. Horses have four bits of lucky nailed to their feet. They should be the luckiest animals in the world. They should rule the country. They should win all their horse races, at least. 'In the fifth race today, every single horse was first equal...one horse threw a shoe came in third...the duck was ninth...and five ran.'
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My Gran said put a thimble on your finger and it helps you in case you slip with the needle and it goes up, into the brain, and death.
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Before birds get sucked into jet engines, do they ever think, Is that Rod Stewart in first class?
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I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
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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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I can go from blokey to girlie in 15 minutes and then I'm out the door. But that's the fastest I can do it. Becoming a woman takes work.
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Some people are widely read. I'm thinly read.
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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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If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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Honey bees are amazing creatures. I mean, think about it, do earwigs make chutney?
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I don't subscribe to the theory that all politicians are crap. I think the 'cool people' often take that position.
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So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!
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Puberty is the sickest joke God plays on us. So you're just noticing members of the sex: Girls girls, ooo. Naturally you want to look your best, and God says No! You will look the worst you've ever looked in your life!
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They tend to come out a colour called 'Pants left in wash'
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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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Animals in the wild are lean, and I think we should be too.
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I am a professional transvestite, so I can run about in heels and not fall over.
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If you can be your own force of nature and have a positive heart, then you can actually do something good in the world.
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