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.
Eddie IzzardI try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
Eddie IzzardThere's not much makeup in the army, is there? No. They only have that nighttime look, and that's a bit slapdash, isn't it?
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