Eddie Izzard Quotes

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

As soon as you take your hobby and make it into your profession, it sort of kills it as a hobby.

If you're making something you're passionate about, it's not going to feel like work.

I love doing photo shoots and interviews. I never feel like I'm wasting my time or I never feel tired. It's all just been fun.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.

Give me something interesting to play and I'm happy.

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

All I can say is, hey, if you have fun doing what you do, if you have fun playing soccer, the creativity is just going to come as time goes on.

When you do something that you like, and you think you can keep doing it, you don't think about retiring.

If I quit having fun, then it's time for me to quit working.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.

I am very fortunate to be doing something I completely love, so it is certainly not hard to get motivated. Watching people sing along and put their hands in the air is a very powerful thing. I'm 63, but I don't feel it. I feel like I'm in my 40s. I enjoy life.

It doesn't really matter where the opportunity comes from, as long as I have fun doing the work.

I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away.

There's not much time to unwind, but you know what, it's because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn't ever feel like work.

My motivation is to be creative and have fun. You want to do something that keeps you on your toes the rest of your life and keeps you busy.

I've never done this from a standpoint of, 'I want to be famous.' I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing.

I act because I enjoy it. I give 200 per cent to it.

When you have fun doing something, it stops being work, really.