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I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.
Eddie Izzard
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Eddie Izzard
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 7
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Stand-Up Comedian
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If you've never seen an elephant ski, then you've never been on acid.
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We have two hundred languages in Europe. Two hundred languages! Count them! I know you won't!
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The Death Star is just full of British actors opening doors and going,Oh... I... oh... What is it Lieutenant Sebastian? It's just the Rebels, sir... they're here. My God, man! Do they want tea? No, I think they're after something a bit more than that, sir. I don't know what it is, but they've brought a flag. Damn, that's dash cunning of them.
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I'd like to have sex with myself.
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San Francisco! City of dreaming spires, people live here... Golden Gate Bridge, ahh the Romans came here.
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Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.
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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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It's my manifest destiny to wear a skirt in all countries.
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Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away that's the deal.
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But puberty was... well, before puberty, at school, I didn't tell kids I was a transvestite 'cause I thought they might kill me with sticks, you know?
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My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
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I did bronze survival swimming. I could save people in a bronzey kind of way.
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There's a thing about trying too hard, which I think is in all forms, which is if you really try to do things really well, you can get to a less good place than if you just let go and let it fly. Especially in creativity.
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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.
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Sharks are just evil bastards. I'm quite happy if all the sharks just went, because they eat fish and us. And we need the fish.
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If you get too well-known, you can never be a comedian's comedian, it just won't sit well. But I'm fine with that. I'm fine with that label.
Eddie Izzard
I don't believe in God. I believe gods and devils are within us. It's our own battle. Our life's battle is to appeal to the gods within us, and to fight the devils within us.
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We must have been hunters and gatherers but some of us were just waiters and hopers.
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It's a historical thing, up to the 19th century the English hated the French. Then in the 20th century the English started to hate the Germans - as we began to move alphabetically through the map of the world. Now, the year 2000, we are fine with the Germans... but the Hungarians are pissing us off.
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Fox hunting, there's big fox hunting thing, there's arguments in Britain about fox hunting. And they go around. They obviously hunt foxes because the foxes, they attack chickens. And posh people have an alliance with chickens just like in the First World War.
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