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Eddie Izzard
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 7
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Comedian
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Politician
Stand-Up Comedian
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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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Some people are widely read. I'm thinly read.
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I want to live till I die. No more, no less.
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You’ve got to believe you can be a standup before you can be a standup. You have to believe you can act before you can act. You have to believe you can be an astronaut before you can be an astronaut. You’ve got to believe.
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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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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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Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.
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When I watched Braveheart I was in tears and I was rooting for the Scottish people
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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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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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Little red cookbook! Little red cookbook!
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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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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 wanted to be less well-known in comedy.
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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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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.
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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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They tend to come out a colour called 'Pants left in wash'
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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 did bronze survival swimming. I could save people in a bronzey kind of way.
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