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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

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Eddie Izzard
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 7
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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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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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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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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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Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.
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So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!
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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 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 just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.
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Little red cookbook! Little red cookbook!
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What was the first cat that talked a human into putting a cat door in?
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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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America is the new Roman Empire. Remember what happened to Rome.
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I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
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Some people are widely read. I'm thinly read.
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Performance enhancing drugs are banned in the Olympics. OK, we can swing with that. But performance 'debilitating' drugs should not be banned. Smoke a joint and win the 100 metres, fair play for you. That's pretty good. Unless someone's dangling a Mars bar off in the distance.
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Honey bees are amazing creatures. I mean, think about it, do earwigs make chutney?
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