Eddie Izzard Quotes

Still humping the American Dream

That's the beauty of America - the fact that all of us can be anything we want to be if we put in the work.

The American dream is not a sprint or even a marathon but a relay.

The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.

I've always felt real blessed, especially to live in this country. If you dream hard and work hard, anything can happen here-I'm perfect proof.

Get off your bottom and be the stand, and do the work you can to pursue the American Dream for yourself, and help others to do the same.

Freedom is the core of all human progress. It believes that nothing's given to us, but if you're willing to work hard. If you're willing to compete, the American dream is there for you.

I believe that Iowa is - and ought to be - a place where, if you're willing to work for it, you can make your dreams come true.

Every human being has a dream. I think what's special about the American Dream is that it implies, given everything that's happened with the history of America, that there is the opportunity to make your dream come true. So I think America signifies opportunity.

My father stood behind a bar in the back of the room all those years, so one day I could stand behind a podium in the front of a room. That journey, from behind that bar to behind this podium, goes to the essence of the American miracle - that we're exceptional not because we have more rich people here. We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here.

One of the beautiful and terrible things about America is you can go there and still be whatever you want, if you bust your ass and you have some luck.

I'm not guaranteeing that if you work hard you'll be able to duplicate my success. But in America, if you work hard, you just might. I'm a perfect example of that.

In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.

I always tell kids that, you know, if my small life represents anything is that if you work hard, you study hard, and you never give up on your dreams and listen to people that care about, you can live those dreams. And for me to be up on the platform standing with my right hand in the air in the presence of my family and our new president, it just tells me this is a great country.

Dreams do come true, but not without the help of others, a good education, a strong work ethic, and the courage to lean in.

The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.

I am proof that the American dream still exists.

I'm not the American Nightmare. I am the American Dream!

Hard work. Well, that=s all right for people who don=t know how to do anything else. It=s all right for people who aren=t lucky. But once you==re lucky, you don=t have to work for other people. You make them work for you.

All I know about getting something that you want is that there are three essential things: wanting, trying and getting the opportunity, the breaks. None works alone without the others. Wanting is basic. Trying is up to you. And the breaks - I do know this, they always happen.

Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit.

There is always room at the top, don't let them tell you there is not.

"Dream big, work hard." My parents brought up Kylie [Jenner] and me to be workaholics. That's something I really appreciate.