273 Quotes by Eddie Izzard

If you’re a performer, people tend to be quite positive about you or they have no opinion.

I’m working on a speed boat at the moment. Much more exciting. It’ll really kick ass, give great photographs for the people in Bible.

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.

If there is a god they need to come down to Earth and explain WWII, Hitler, bowel cancer, and Croc shoes.

I love the fact that trying is respected. The American Dream: if you try, if you build it, they will come. I love that. It’s honorable.

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.

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.

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They’re just pretty people singing music written by others.

Stamina is the big thing you have to learn if you want to achieve success in any kind of career, but especially creative careers.