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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
Eddie Izzard
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Eddie Izzard
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 7
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I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.
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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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And the druids, they were into sex and death in an interesting night-time telly sort of way.
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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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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 appreciate your applause, but I don't do it for applause. I do it for cash, it's much better.
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When I watched Braveheart I was in tears and I was rooting for the Scottish people
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That's no good, I can't steal from the fairly well off and give to the moderately impoverished! That's not gonna swing, is it?
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Little red cookbook! Little red cookbook!
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If you can be your own force of nature and have a positive heart, then you can actually do something good in the world.
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All humans can do more than they think they can do. So I think we can all actually be more superhuman than we think we can.
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You're gay, you sell books... you probably shag the books.
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If you're choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words, 'Heimlich maneuver,' and all will be well. Trouble is, it's difficult to say 'Heimlich maneuver' when you're choking to death.
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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 don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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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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