“Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words w...” — Eddie Izzard Quote

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“All the most prominent Darwinists proclaim naturalistic philosophy when they think it safe to do so.”

“Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.”

“In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.”

“There's a kind of saying that you don't understand its meaning, 'I don't believe it. It's too crazy. I'm not going to accept it.'… You'll have to accept it. It's the way nature works. If you want to know how nature works, we looked at it, carefully. Looking at it, that's the way it looks. You don't like it? Go somewhere else, to another universe where the rules are simpler, philosophically more pleasing, more psychologically easy. I can't help it, okay? If I'm going to tell you honestly what the world looks like to the human beings who have struggled as hard as they can to understand it, I can only tell you what it looks like.”

“I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.”