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Eddie Izzard
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 7
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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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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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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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We must have been hunters and gatherers but some of us were just waiters and hopers.
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If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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If I were Achilles I would put my foot in a f**k off block of concrete!
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I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
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Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.
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Your eyes flashed fire into my soul. I immediately read the words of Dostoyevsky and Karl Marx, and in the words of Albert Schweitzer, I FANCY YOU!
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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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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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America is the new Roman Empire. Remember what happened to Rome.
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Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.
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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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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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I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.
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What was the first cat that talked a human into putting a cat door in?
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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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Some people are widely read. I'm thinly read.
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San Francisco! City of dreaming spires, people live here... Golden Gate Bridge, ahh the Romans came here.
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