Eddie Izzard
"Gentle cutting-edge, kind of like a velvet razor."
-Robin Williams
"Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support."
"I could get into the tabloids if I shot someone, or killed someone's gran, or invaded Russia. Those are obvious ones not to do."
“Some people would heckle me and say ‘Where’s the dress?’ and I’d say ‘Don’t oppress me, you Nazi’ - tends to shut them up. Because I have fought for the right to be able to wear a dress, not that I have to wear a dress. I didn’t jump out of a not-wearing-dress box into a have-to-wear-dress box.”
"The art of flirting is to talk endless amounts of bull until people laugh."
"I like playing shitheads. There's an affinity between the extreme of comedy and extreme of shitheads."
"I like people who have ambition and ideas and are creative, who see the world as a place to play and full of people to meet. I can't really relate to people who think small. I don't know what to say."
"I'm not a drag act. This is not about the clothes. It's about the comedy and I just do whatever I want. I can wear whatever I want now."
"I want things to be sexy because I feel particularly not sexy."
"That's how I see my audience, a surrogate affection machine. It doesn't necessarily have to be comedy, either. It could be drama or music, anything where you want that love back."
"I would have loved to have been a Python, as in Monty. That's all I ever wanted to be, but I wasn't born yet. Wait no, I was born. But I was seven when they started, so that's why."
"If you just stand still, it's a problem. You've got to be prepared to screw up. If you take risks, people will respect you."