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" Animals in the wild are lean, and I think we should be too. "
Too
Animals
Think
" Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others. "
Music
Great
Singing
" Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal. "
Food
Go
Eat
" Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support. "
Support
Attack
Comedy
" 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. "
Happy
Woman
Change
" I don't believe that competitions are important. "
Important
Believe
Competitions
" 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. "
Know
Immigrants
Jobs
" 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. "
Comedy
Twisted
Character
" If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan. "
Plan
God
Having
" If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel. "
Same
Creative
Feel
" If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay. "
Meaning
You
Feeling
" If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid. "
Never
You
Seen
" I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from. "
Funny
Up
Europe
" I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive. "
Believe
Power
Just
" I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup. "
Women
Cup
Like
" I'm a one-man idiot. "
Idiot
One-Man
" 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. "
Acting
Sometimes
Mean
" 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. "
Good
Think
Information
" 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. "
Think
Feelings
Brother
" I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever. "
Human
Think
Religion
" 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. "
Now
Like
Possible
" 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. "
Fight
Mind
Think
" I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less. "
Less
Die
Live
" I wanted to be less well-known in comedy. "
Less
Well-Known
Comedy
" MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic. "
Got
Same
Stealing
" My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal. "
Say
Conversation
Time
" Never put a sock in a toaster. "
Put
Sock
Never
" Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling. "
Words
Philosophy
Religion
" 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! "
American
Relationship
Feel
" There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God? "
My Life
Life
Growing Up
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