Quotes from Eddie Izzard

If you are an LGBT+ person and you come out, you have to go through your knight's quest to create ground for yourself, to stand there and say, 'I exist. I have no reason to feel guilt or shame. I am proud to exist, and while I'm not perfect, I deserve to exist in society just like anyone else.

If you are an LGBT+ person and you come out, you have to go through your knight's quest to create ground for yourself, to create a space for yourself, to stand there and say, "I exist. I have no reason to feel guilt or shame. I am proud to exist, and while I'm not perfect, I deserve to exist in society just like anyone else.

You're analog players in a digital world.

You know, I don't believe that religions are religions. No, I believe they are philosophies with some good ideas and some fuckin' weird ones.

How easily men could make things much better than they are – if they only all tried together!' Winston Churchill, 1909

You stick a wooden stake through the heart of your failures and they become successes.

It doesn't matter what sex or sexuality, how you identify or who you fancy - it matters not one whit. What do you do in life? What do you create? What do you add to the human existence - that is what matters.

Even though America loves baseball, (American) football, and basketball, I feel it is the ultimate American game, really, because it's a pure meritocracy, and that is what America was designed as.

Despair is the fuel of terrorism, and hope is the fuel of civilization

I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.

I don't believe that competitions are important.

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

Well, 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.

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both ... different. In spelling.

If there were a god, don't you think he would have flicked Hitler's head off?

There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

Learning that you have stamina is an excellent thing to know. If a project fails, I know I can pick myself up.

Everyone gets cards at the beginning of life. I am transgender, I decided to be honest and tell everyone about it, and that's it.

I don't believe in God. I believe gods and devils are within us. It's our own battle. Our life's battle is to appeal to the gods within us, and to fight the devils within us.

I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts.

Animals in the wild are lean, and I think we should be too.

MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.

Performing enhancing drugs are banned in the Olympics. Okay, we can swing with that. But performance debilitating drugs should not be banned. Smoke a joint and win the hundred meters, fair play to you. That's pretty damn good. Unless someone's dangling a Mars bar off in the distance.