Lauren

“Don’t get somewhere as fast as possible. Get somewhere as good as possible”
― Eddie Izzard, Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens

“If you are an LGBT+ person and you come out, you have to go through your knight’s quest to create ground for yourself, to create a space for yourself, to stand there and say, “I exist. I have no reason to feel guilt or shame. I am proud to exist, and while I’m not perfect, I deserve to exist in society just like anyone else.”

This became my first big fight.

While I consider myself to be fantastically boring, I realized that if I took on my own sexual identity and came out and just told people about it and tried to have a chat with them—tried to be offhand and casual about it—and tried to build our place in society and humanity, then that would be a good mission. This is where I exist in society. I am just this guy. I am transgender, and I exist. But that is just my sexuality. More important than that is that I perform comedy, I perform drama, I run marathons, and I’m an activist in politics. These are the things I do. How you self-identify with your sexuality matters not one wit. What you do in life—what you do to add to the human existence—that is what matters. That is the beautiful thing.”
― Eddie Izzard, Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens

“I realized that belief is a key ingredient in trying to do things that are difficult.”
― Eddie Izzard, Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens

“Despair is the fuel of terrorism, and hope is the fuel of civilization, so we have to put more hope into the world than despair. Hatred and separation and building walls is not the way to progress. Going backward is not the way to go forward.”
― Eddie Izzard, Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens