273 Quotes by Eddie Izzard

If you’re trying to get a bit of attention, you can smash up your hotel room or spend all your time going to openings or doing the gossip column thing. I just decided to do gigs in French, German, Spanish, and in America.

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.

Charles Darwin wrote a famous book in 18 gibberish. And that book was an interesting book, cuz it was called “Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-You”

They tend to come out a colour called ‘Pants left in wash’

Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It’s not a great weapon of support.

People still talk about a British sense of humour, or French slapstick or how the Germans have no sense of humour – and it’s just rubbish. I do strongly feel that we are all the bloody same.

I’m an action transvestite really, so it’s running, jumping, climbing trees putting on make-up when you’re up there!

When I first came out, I thought, I want to walk like a real woman, I don’t want to do mincing steps. And there was some girl I saw walking up Holloway Road in Islington who had this long languid walk and I thought, that’s what I like, so I incorporated her walk into mine.

Queen Victoria, one of our more frumpy Queen’s. They’re all frumpy aren’t they? Because it’s a bad idea when cousin’s marry.