Eddie Izzard Quotes

I want to be a guy, but I want to wear a lot of makeup.

I love wearing drag.

I feel like I'm a drag queen.

The crux of drag is outsiders looking in. That's all it is.

You get the wig on, you put the lipstick on, you get the big eyelashes on and that's the GC. It's like Paul O'Grady when he does Lily Savage... But when I'm not working, I don't wear a scrap of makeup.

My own experience of gender has been about a lot of fluidity. In drag, I like to combine aspects of masculinity and femininity and rewrite the rules for those.

I love the creativity and the social and political aspects of drag.

As a drag performer, my identity exists in music, art, and fashion, not in any one 'language' of gender or 'appearance.'

I've still never gotten used to myself in drag.

I am happy being a man in a dress. Some people get confused and think I'm a trans woman, but I'm strict about the difference. What I do is performance, it's staged, it's glamour - it's not real life. But for trans people, being born in the wrong body - there's nothing glamorous or easy about that.

I started out as being a diva in a golden dress and now to a more bearded drag artist guy in boots.

There have always been drag queens everywhere.

Drag artists are more men than real men. You need a lot of courage, personality, and guts to go out there. Even if you look good or you look bad, you still need to have all of those things to be on stage. You're going to get criticized by everyone.

If Luna Marie is at the park, my child is not happy unless she's on the highest bar of the jungle gym or the tallest branch of a tree or jumping over the biggest, deepest hole.

I do 'sissy with a heart of gold' really well.

My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.

I always said if I played a drag queen, I'd want to create a template with the realness they talk about in 'Paris Is Burning.'

I've seen some very beautiful drag queens.

I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.

I was a tomboy growing up, and an athlete.

I think I've always had that struggle my whole life, of feeling a little bit more gender-neutral, feeling more comfortable as a creative person when I'm dressed like a boy, when I'm dressed more masculine.

I'm a tomboy. I love shooting guns and running around.

I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

I love surfing, rock climbing, cycling - all that stuff. But it's just amazing that I can inspire people with my running. It's humbling, really.

Someday I'm going to go onstage in a dress if I want to.