3 Eddie Izzard Quotes on Film

Eddie Izzard quotes on film

14. '[Steve McQueen, in The Great Escape] jumps on a motorbike, took off,and whoom, in 15 minutes he's in the borders of Switzerland. This is from Poland!... And if you don't know the geography, it goes Poland, Czechoslovakia, Holland, Venezuela, Africa, Beyrouth, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and then Switzerland!'

38. Whereas if the film did any little bit of business in America, if the film did some decent bit of business, then Hollywood would take it, and they'd remake it and up the budget by 50 million and it would be called The Room With a View of Hell! : Staircase of Satan! : Pond of Death.

52. Back in the '40s and '50s they took sex out. I don't know, the Noel Coward -sort of 'Into Which We Serve'-type films: [In a posh accent] 'Darling, I'm off to the war.' 'Don't go, darling, don't go to the war.' 'I must go to the war, darling, they won't start without me.' 'Don't go, darling, it's dangerous- rat-tat-tat boom, and all those noises.' 'I must go, darling, it's my duty as a Cockney man.' All the accents were really fucked, weren't they? 'We, as East enders - we as people from the East End of London, the working class of London, we must go with our strange accents: go to the war. I must do it.' If that's the East End of London accent, then what's a posh accent? '(exaggerated posh accent, complete nonsense)' said a posh person to me today: He also said, '(more nonsense)' And I believe him!