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Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.
Eddie Izzard
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Eddie Izzard
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 7
Actor
Comedian
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Stand-Up Comedian
Television Actor
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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 you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay.
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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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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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If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.
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Spiders frighten me. In response to the spider alerts for Australia, please can the Australian government remove all spiders from Australia and blow them into outer space.
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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 try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.
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In the UK a lot of people don't like to try. There's a different cultural thing. Here [in USA] if you try and fail, you get up again and start again and keep going. People respect you for it. Even if you keep failing, they respect the tenacity.
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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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Horseshoes are lucky. Horses have four bits of lucky nailed to their feet. They should be the luckiest animals in the world. They should rule the country. They should win all their horse races, at least. 'In the fifth race today, every single horse was first equal...one horse threw a shoe came in third...the duck was ninth...and five ran.'
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But the Dutch speak four languages and smoke marijuana!
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I am a professional transvestite, so I can run about in heels and not fall over.
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And the National Rifle Association says that, Guns don't kill people, people do, but I think the gun helps, you know? I think it helps. I just think just standing there going, Bang! That's not going to kill too many people, is it? You'd have to be really dodgy on the heart to have that.
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Two languages in one brain? No one can live at that speed!
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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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I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
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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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If I were Achilles I would put my foot in a f**k off block of concrete!
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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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