Eddie Izzard Quotes

I knew I could never be an actor as a man. It just doesn't work, you know? And so when I was doing drag, I realized I could do that kind of stuff, and then when I was transitioning, I kind of gave up on the whole thing because I didn't think that this time would ever come, you know?

I don't think of myself as a model. I'm genderqueer, and I've got tattoos.

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are.

I am a professional transvestite, so I can run about in heels and not fall over.

Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.

I'm pretty sure I'm a doppelganger for Alan Alda. I'm a trannie; I'm a man.

Oh, completely liberating because even if you don't do a woman right, you just have to put on high heels a wig, a bra and a dress, and I feel liberated.

You don't walk like other boys. You don't talk like other boys. But at six, you are not thinking about your sexuality.

Theatre comes alive when someone cross-dresses onstage.

I'm not growing out my hair just to be androgynous.

I grew up as a tomboy. I hated posing and things like that.

When not dressed as Conchita I am a man, and a lazy one at that.

When I put on a dress, people have a lot of questions to ask, so I like putting on a dress just to get people to ask those questions and open up a dialogue.

I think the world is kind of catching on that gender roles aren't so necessary and becoming a lot less defined and starting to become a lot more about the individual and character of that person.

I was gender-nonconforming in high school in terms of the way I dressed, in terms of the way I cut my hair.

I love that contradiction of being feminine but playing in the boys' treehouse. My whole life's been like that.

I take my hat off to the ladies. The amount of grooming-plucking and shaving and all the other things men never have to do. I went down and spent time with transvestites in London in the clubs and all that. Got an insight to that world, and it's a mad world, but they are very warm and very open people. It was a great experience.

I am a thespian trapped in a man's body.

When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate Barbra Streisand's flawless eyeliner, only to comb it all out and wash it all off before stepping out into the world a butchish bisexual teen.

I feel that I'm sort of playing me but more feminine, and to me more feminine means smarter.

I love being super-tough, but if I need to put on a dress and do my hair and makeup, I can do that, too.

I consider myself a boy in a dress.

I've always been very girly.

I dress for women and I undress for men.

I love wearing drag.