Eddie Izzard Quotes

The myth of my solitude makes me laugh.

If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.

I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.

Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.

One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.

I think I'm hysterical. I watch myself on tape and just roar - isn't that weird?

I don't talk to myself or anything, but sometimes I say things and I laugh at myself. Sometimes you have to make fun of yourself.

I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.

I never think I'm making fun of my culture. In fact I'm making fun of myself, because I catch myself doing some very stupid things.

I need to stay busy. Otherwise, I am like so many people, alone with my thoughts, and I can be my own worst enemy.

But I was a sensitive kid. A funny kid, and a perceptive one. There was a lot of time spent alone.

Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christmas party every year at which you stand in the corner of your writing room, shouting very loudly to yourself while drinking a bottle of white wine. Then masturbate under the desk. The following day you will feel a deep and cohering sense of embarrassment.

I’m not a cuckoo, either. I’m a fool is what.

I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be.

There’s nothing more humbling than seeing your best quotes in a list, and thinking they could have been written by a coma patient with a keyboard and spasms.

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.

Nobody can make more fun of me than I already make of myself.

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.

You can't take yourself too seriously.

Sometimes I think I should have chosen a line of work where it was just me alone in the room, with the sun coming in, and God, insofar as he or she exists, smiling down upon me. Then I would have never been accused of being a tyrant, other than towards myself.