273 Quotes by Eddie Izzard

I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.

Drag for me is costume, and what I'm trying to do is, sometimes I'll go around and wear makeup in the streets, turn up to the gig, take the makeup off, do the show, and then put the makeup back on. It's the inverse of drag. It's not about artifice. It's about me just expressing myself. So when I'm campaigning in London for politics, I campaign with makeup on and the nails. It's just what I have on, like any woman.

My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.

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

Danger could be my middle name... But it's John.

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

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.

If you can be your own force of nature and have a positive heart, then you can actually do something good in the world.

I am two lesbians in a man's body.