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I'm a dyslexic person, so I avoid books.

Eddie Izzard

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Eddie Izzard
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 7
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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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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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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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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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Everyone gets cards at the beginning of life. I am transgender, I decided to be honest and tell everyone about it, and that's it.
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It's my manifest destiny to wear a skirt in all countries.
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Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia. This is true, they proved this one. The word dyslexia was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.
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I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
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Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.
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I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing.
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I'm into humanity. I don't believe in God, but I believe in human beings.
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America is the new Roman Empire. Remember what happened to Rome.
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I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.
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I don't believe in God. So I'm a non-believer in the non-visible. I'm a believer in us in humans.
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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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You're gay, you sell books... you probably shag the books.
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Two languages in one brain? No one can live at that speed!
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