Eddie Izzard Quotes
I can go from blokey to girlie in 15 minutes and then I`m out the door. But that`s the fastest I can do it. Becoming a woman takes work.
If you`re choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words, `Heimlich maneuver,` and all will be well. Trouble is, it`s difficult to say `Heimlich maneuver` when you`re choking to death.
My sexuality is straight transvestite or male lesbian. It seems we are beyond the idea that I am gay and hiding it. If I had to describe how I feel in my head, I`d say I`m a complete boy plus half a girl. I don`t seem to have the sixth sense that women have or their stronger senses of taste and smell. Gay men can also have it but straight men don`t.
The National Rifle Association says, `Guns don`t kill people. People do`. But I think the gun helps.
When I first came out, I thought, I want to walk like a real woman, I don`t want to do mincing steps. And there was some girl I saw walking up Holloway Road in Islington who had this long languid walk and I thought, that`s what I like, so I incorporated her walk into mine.
I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
I`d be happy to be taken as a woman -- and that`s what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn`t going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I`d change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.
I definitely have breast envy. When teenage girls were saying `I wish I had breasts`, I was thinking the same thing.
