#eddie izzard

[oldshowbiz]

1991.

Eddie Izzard at Just for Laughs

[metatheatre]

Suzy Eddie Izzard holding a big ass sword in the Weta Workshop

[oldshrewsburyian]

There just cannot be a wall in space. You can't get to the edge of the universe and then find there's a squirrel there with a gun saying, 'Oh, don't come in here, we haven't worked this bit out yet.' It just can't be.

Eddie Izzard, Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens

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Eddie Izzard on being honest about being transgender

[oldshrewsburyian]

Despair is the fuel of terrorism, and hope is the fuel of civilization, so we have to put more hope into the world than despair.

Eddie Izzard, Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens

[oldshrewsburyian]

I will go to the bank manager of confidence (in some part of my brain) and I will borrow that confidence from the future, and I will talk to everyone with this confidence.

Eddie Izzard, Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens

[oldshrewsburyian]

If you don't know what a tea cozy is, a tea cozy is sort of a duvet for a teapot that keeps the teapot warm. (If you don't know what a duvet is, it's like a tea cozy for humans.)

Eddie Izzard, Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens

[oldshrewsburyian]

My thinking was: Don't burn your bridges -- flame-throw your bridges. Absolutely completely destroy them. Because then the only way forward is to go for your dreams.

Eddie Izzard, Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens