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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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Eddie Izzard
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 7
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And the National Rifle Association says that, Guns don't kill people, people do, but I think the gun helps, you know? I think it helps. I just think just standing there going, Bang! That's not going to kill too many people, is it? You'd have to be really dodgy on the heart to have that.
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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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Guns don't kill people, people kill people, and monkeys do too (if they have a gun).
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I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
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When I watched Braveheart I was in tears and I was rooting for the Scottish people
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But the Dutch speak four languages and smoke marijuana!
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We stole countries with the cunning use of flags. Just sail around the world and stick a flag in. I claim India for Britain! They're going You can't claim us, we live here! Five hundred million of us! Do you have a flag …? No... Well, if you don't have a flag, then you can't have a country. Those are the rules... that I just made u
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I saw something in a program on something in Miami, and they were saying, We've redecorated this building to how it looked over 50 years ago! And people were going, No, surely not, no. No one was alive then.
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Honey bees are amazing creatures. I mean, think about it, do earwigs make chutney?
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The bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of drama is to be truthful. You can be truthful and funny, but if you're not truthful in a drama than the audience leaves you.
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Some people are widely read. I'm thinly read.
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I did bronze survival swimming. I could save people in a bronzey kind of way.
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When you're coming out, you have to deal with the whole world saying 'Oh! You're an abominable snowman'.
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I want to live till I die. No more, no less.
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Danger could be my middle name... But it's John.
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