Eddie Izzard Quotes

I don't cry about anything.

Crying is not an option.

By the time I was in high school, I was big enough to beat the hell out of everybody who said anything to me. And I learned how to blend in. All of that made me a very confident man. A very aggressive man. I developed it to survive.

When people direct insults at me, I can take it.

For years I used to think that you had to hide your emotions to show that you are strong.

Never let your face show how hard they are taking your ass.

I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.

New York City is a very tough place. I'm tough, too. When people give me a punch in the nose, I react by getting even tougher.

I showed that I can fight without boxing, that I can take a punch.

In real life, I don't cry too easily. I go numb.

I don't cry easily.

When someone unloads on me, I keep my head moving; I don't freeze. I punch back with them. The occasion never gets to me. Not one bit. I enjoy it.

You can either give in to negative feelings or fight them, and I'm of the belief that you should fight them.

You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you.

Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.

I took a deep breath, 'I took the nahlrout because I didn't want to faint. I needed to let them know they couldn't hurt me. I've learned that the best way to stay safe is to make your enemies think you can't be hurt.' It sounded ugly to say it so starkly, but it was the truth. I looked at him defiantly.

I was an emotional manipulator of fighters . . . You have to know how to be cold, you know? Just have no -emotions, no feelings. It takes time, though, to develop that. I'd been working on that since I was 12 years old. It doesn't happen overnight.

When someone gives you offense, it doesn't mean you have to take it.

Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart.

Anger is a better weapon than tears; a burr commands more respect than a sensitive plant.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

Listen, street punk. You're a guy, and you're a couple inches taller, and maybe forty pounds heavier, and ooh, you're in a gang. But I've survived ten years of Catholic school, and I will cut you off at your knees without a blink. Do you understand?

We don't have time to be sad

You can't go fighting everyone that's harsh towards you.

On the field, you have to be aggressive; you're thinking how to get the better of a situation. It's not that I don't laugh on the field. In fact, I think it's very important to laugh, especially when you are angry and aggressive, to just take the tension away, make the moment go away.