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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 try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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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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Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.
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When I was seven, I said, I want to act. When I was 10, I realized that films exist, and I wanted to be in them. Not a comedian, I wanted to be a dramatic actor. Films just seemed such fun, and like such a great thing to do.
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When I watched Braveheart I was in tears and I was rooting for the Scottish people
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There's a thing about trying too hard, which I think is in all forms, which is if you really try to do things really well, you can get to a less good place than if you just let go and let it fly. Especially in creativity.
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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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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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But the Dutch speak four languages and smoke marijuana!
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Two languages in one brain? No one can live at that speed!
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You have the American dream! The dream is to be born in a gutter and grow up, and then get all the money in the world and stick it in your ears and go THBBBBBT.
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I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
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Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.
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Animals in the wild are lean, and I think we should be too.
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I am someone who's very positive about business, as a social Democrat. I do like the safety net of the welfare system and people setting things and creating business, and that's what I try to do with my own work: export it around the world from the U.K.
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For me to put a look together, if it's going to be a boy look or a girl look or whatever, is quite a tricky thing to do. I'm not doing drag because drag is seen in a certain way and my comedy has got zero to do with what I'm wearing. I could wear an elephant suit and say the same thing.
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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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Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away that's the deal.
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I did bronze survival swimming. I could save people in a bronzey kind of way.
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I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.
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