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You’ve got to believe you can be a standup before you can be a standup. You have to believe you can act before you can act. You have to believe you can be an astronaut before you can be an astronaut. You’ve got to believe.

Eddie Izzard

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Eddie Izzard
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 7
Actor
Comedian
Improviser
Politician
Stand-Up Comedian
Television Actor
Voice Actor
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When you're more mature, you do start telling the truth, in odd situations. I'm sorry, I've broken a glass here. Is that expensive? I'll pay for it. I'm sorry. And you do that so that people in the room might go, What a strong personality that person has. I like to have sex with people with strong personalities.
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Animals in the wild are lean, and I think we should be too.
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I did bronze survival swimming. I could save people in a bronzey kind of way.
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When I watched Braveheart I was in tears and I was rooting for the Scottish people
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And the druids, they were into sex and death in an interesting night-time telly sort of way.
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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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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 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.
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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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We have two hundred languages in Europe. Two hundred languages! Count them! I know you won't!
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I can go from blokey to girlie in 15 minutes and then I'm out the door. But that's the fastest I can do it. Becoming a woman takes work.
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I am a professional transvestite, so I can run about in heels and not fall over.
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It's my manifest destiny to wear a skirt in all countries.
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Comedy is like a very cokey, druggy sugar. You get hits of comedy, and it's very, More, give me more of that stuff, because serotonin is being released in the brain. So it's basically, everyone becomes serotonin junkies, and we are serotonin dealers. And that's what being a comedian is about.
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So in Europe, we had empires. Everyone had them - France and Spain and Britain and Turkey! The Ottoman Empire, full of furniture for some reason. And the Austro-Hungarian Empire, famous for f-k all! Yes, all they did was slowly collapse like a flan in a cupboard.
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We must have been hunters and gatherers but some of us were just waiters and hopers.
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If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.
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I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.
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Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.
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Little red cookbook! Little red cookbook!
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