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Because that's what narcissism is all about; looking in the mirror everyday and thinking 'Damn, I'd like to shag myself.'


Eddie Izzard

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EDDIE IZZARD Eddie Izzard is absolutely brilliant. I would love to write something for him.
BRUCE VILANCH My wife and I take what we call our Friday comedy day off. We watch standup comics on TV. The raunch...
GENE HACKMAN I love looking in the mirror and feeling good about what I see.
HEATHER MORRIS Be aware of yourself without thinking or looking in the mirror
BERT MCCOY I remember watching it all and getting the tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what...
GAYLE FORMAN I wrote for that back in the mid-1980s. Thats what got me thinking New England should have something...
BURT FEINTUCH Its a little like looking at yourself looking in a mirror looking at yourself looking in a mirror.
LOIS LOWRY Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw,...
AUDREY HEPBURN I watch you like a mirror, because I see in you what I see in myself. Who we love is a reflection of...
JAROD KINTZ Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw,...
AUDREY HEPBURN I'm insecure about everything, because... I'm never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, ...
CHER The trouble with research is that it tells you what people were thinking about yesterday, not tomorr...
BERNARD LOOMIS When you can feel good about yourself, it carries over into everyday life. If you can look in the mi...
DICK BRYANT How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. I like to think that Harry Cohn is having a somewhat difficult time sleeping in his grave thinking o...
BETSY BEERS Believing in the ego is like believing that you are the one in the mirror instead of the one looking...
JACK TYME No use thinking of the past for its gone, don't think of the future because it has to come, think of...
KAZI SHAMS “Sometimes I try reading books upside-down because I think, thats what it would be like if I could...
LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS Poetry looking in the mirror sees art,
and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
ABERJHANI Eddie Jordan found me all the drives. If I am with Tyrrell today, it is because Eddie was there.
JEAN ALESI I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the gre...
IGGY POP The problem with looking in the mirror is that you never know how you will feel about what you see. ...
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE I'm insecure about everything, because... I'm never going to look in the mirror and see this...
CHER Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I ...
SAMMY HAGAR I look in the mirror and see a few scars, but I like myself.
STEVEN ADLER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES "Fashion is about good energy. Its about feelings. Thats what I have to give the people, good energy...
ADRIANA LIMA Honestly, I don't really read about myself. I look at the pictures sometimes. Sometimes I'm ...
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI It might be a bloody cheek. But so what? It goes on all the time. Chefs travel the world looking for...
EGON RONAY The first thing I do is look in the mirror and look at myself. What has happened has strengthened my...
AUSTIN HEALEY I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society ...
RON PAUL All we are is what we're told and most of thats been lies.
JOHN RZEZNIK ...Because it is too damn hard, I can't even begin to explain to you how much I gonna miss you. When...
FRIENDS This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.
MITCH ALBOM "We all have a call in life... Mine is to be me. No matter how hard, no matter how inconvenient. No ...
NILSA FACCHI-BOLLIER No use thinking of the past for its gone, don't think of the future because it has to come, think of...
KAZI SHAMS It is time for each of us to stop looking out the window and start looking in the mirror.
JOSEPH CALIFANO I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It w...
JANET JACKSON One of the jobs of art is to inspire discussion, and Brokeback Mountain certainly has done that. It'...
DIANA OSSANA Gillman smiles, in the cold manner of an assassin. It's like looking in the mirror.
IRVINE WELSH When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN ...I've learned that doing what you think is right doesn't always make you feel good. For another, I...
ANN RINALDI It is not good to make everyday decision based upon what we see and what other people are saying or ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA And then he’s somewhere inside of me, each thrust rattling my ribcage like a bottle of pills. I’...
KRIS KIDD And then he's somewhere inside of me, each thrust rattling my ribcage like a bottle of pills. I'm so...
KRIS KIDD I'm always thinking about what a black lady would think about what I'm doing, just because I...
JESSICA WILLIAMS It sounds so cheesy, but there's something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking ...
KRISTEN WIIG Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like dri...
HERB BRODY Putting yourself in the place of others...is what thinking ethically is all about.
PETER SINGER I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself.
DREW BARRYMORE The eyes are the mirror of the soul and reflect everything that seems to be hidden; and like a mirro...
PAULO COELHO I distracted myself from the fear and terrorism by thinking about things like how the universe began...
MALALA YOUSAFZAI I was a million percent in love with Edward Scissorhands. I remember looking in the mirror on the la...
JOHNNY DEPP Memory is a funny thing. When I was in the scene, I hardly paid it any mind. I never stopped to thin...
HARUKI MURAKAMI looking in the rear-view mirror.
STEVEN COOPER 115. Infallibly, silence leads to God, provided man stops looking at himself. For even in the exper...
ROBERT SARAH This conversation with myself has an overwhelming aroma of narcissism.
TAWNY LARA If you are constantly looking in the rear view mirror, how will you ever see what is in front of you...
NOT SURE I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think...
IGGY POP I can't bear looking in the mirror-I guess that's why my hair looks like this.
LANCE BASS No one's ever going to shag you if you cry all the time.
LOVE ACTUALLY Every wise man is a damn fool for at least five minutes everyday; wisdom lies in 'not exceeding the ...
QAMAR KHAN QURESHI being funny is actually all about thinking "what if ?" in a creative way.
SHASHANKBISHT It's not fun to see myself in the mirror.
DIANE KEATON Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship ne...
JOHNNY DEPP Life is always uncertain. No one knows what's in there. But now my life is everywhere, I would just ...
HAPPY POSITIVITY BLANKLY AHEAD I always feared finding myself thinking about all the things I could have done, about all the things...
SAMBHAV RATNAKAR I wondered what it would be like to not give a damn about what people thought of you.
JODI PICOULT I'm a big potato chip girl. I don't like chocolate and cakes and all that, but I have to hav...
NENE LEAKES Music is anti-intellectual. It's non-literal, and you have to find out what makes the director happy...
BILL CONTI He didn't want her to be around her friends. I used to call her everyday until she said 'don't, beca...
CATHY CRAFT All that I'm thinking about is the game: what we could've done better, what we needed to do better t...
JOSH BOONE What happened? Really, what happened? We're not thinking about that. That's in the past. We're looki...
JOSE MOLINA My most cunning and powerful enemy stares at me in the mirror everyday and I thought he was my frien...
JIM GENOVESE I keep the shutters closed because I like to work in a hermetic environment. I like mirrors. When yo...
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY I'm your friend forever, and if that's all I get, then that's what I'm taking because only when you ...
PENELOPE DOUGLAS I care very deeply about Eddie. I like him. We would like to count on him.
JEFF VAN GUNDY Looking in the mirror is the most important thing. Am I looking to plan for retirement, or am I look...
DAN BURKE Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
DEAN KOONTZ Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group tha...
JEFFREY KLUGER George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was a...
GEORGE FOREMAN George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was a...
GEORGE FOREMAN The world is the mirror of myself dying.
HENRY MILLER But Eddie does not make all the decisions. Eddie can listen to reason; Eddie can be swayed or talked...
STONE GOSSARD I want her to be happy. It's worth sacrificing myself." -Eddie
RICHELLE MEAD Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because t...
JACQUES MARITAIN For me, writing music is kind of like a musical mirror where I write music and learn about myself in...
DANIEL TRUEMAN GS The hardest thing about parenthood is that, when you look at your child you are actually looking in ...
DAN VALVERDE I literally used to stare at my face in the mirror with hate and anger. I'd focus on those gigan...
STEPHANIE BEATRIZ Damn. I never should have agreed to this. What is he thinking? Here we are in a piece of crap pickup...
JENNA-LYNNE DUNCAN Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It...
LOUISE FLETCHER What man in his 40s would not like to look in the mirror and find Nolan Ryan?
NOLAN RYAN In middle school, we are all so damn insecure. It was the worst time for me, really destructive, lik...
NIKKI REED I hardly look at myself in the mirror... I'll only wear makeup if I need to cover something up. ...
PAMELA HANSON It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK When I think of all the years in my 30s when I starved myself... but when I got the role of Lois, I ...
JANE KACZMAREK Culture is like a giant mirror which enables us to see who we are
more clearly. The various fa...
DR ROBIN LINCOLN WOOD

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Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
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EDDIE IZZARD Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
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EDDIE IZZARD MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police w...
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EDDIE IZZARD I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens ...
EDDIE IZZARD If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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EDDIE IZZARD Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different...
EDDIE IZZARD I'm a one-man idiot.
EDDIE IZZARD I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I st...
EDDIE IZZARD Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.
EDDIE IZZARD I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.
EDDIE IZZARD Animals in the wild are lean, and I think we should be too.
EDDIE IZZARD I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
EDDIE IZZARD If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.
EDDIE IZZARD Never put a sock in a toaster.
EDDIE IZZARD If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.
EDDIE IZZARD In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be...
EDDIE IZZARD But with dogs, we do have "bad dog." Bad dog exists. "Bad dog! Bad dog! Stole a biscuit, bad dog!" T...
EDDIE IZZARD So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Cli...
EDDIE IZZARD If you're choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words, 'Heimlich maneuver,' and all wil...
EDDIE IZZARD The National Rifle Association says, 'Guns don't kill people. People do'. But I think the gun helps.
EDDIE IZZARD I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
EDDIE IZZARD So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Cli...
EDDIE IZZARD Imperial Soldier: Oh... I... Oh.Imperial Commander: What is it lieutenant Sebastian?Imperial Soldier...
EDDIE IZZARD And you don’t get the normal perks of a normal job, like people who work in an office; they have o...
EDDIE IZZARD I think on the seventh day, God was running around, going, “Oh, my God! What haven’t I…? Rwand...
EDDIE IZZARD But then the Roman Empire fell like this- "oh shit". And we went intowhat the historians called the ...
EDDIE IZZARD They tend to come out a colour called 'Pants left in wash'
EDDIE IZZARD It’s a secret, religious, weird, ceremonial rite of passage for girls that women know. Hopscotch, ...
EDDIE IZZARD I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some ...
EDDIE IZZARD So in Europe, we had empires. Everyone had them - France and Spain and Britain and Turkey! The Ottom...
EDDIE IZZARD Two languages in one brain? No one can live at that speed!
EDDIE IZZARD You say 'erbs, and we say Herbs because there's a f*****g H in it!
EDDIE IZZARD ‘Cause Jesus I do think did exist, and he was, I think, a guy who had interesting ideas in the Gand...
EDDIE IZZARD What have you been reading, the gospel according to St. Bastard?
EDDIE IZZARD And the National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill people, people do,” but I think the ...
EDDIE IZZARD But with dogs, we do have “bad dog.” Bad dog exists. “Bad dog! Bad dog! Stole a biscuit, bad dog!...
EDDIE IZZARD Oh, Captain Clever! Rattle it, if it doesn't go off it can't be a bomb!
EDDIE IZZARD Excuse me, do you have a pencil?
EDDIE IZZARD And there’s others like taxidermist! You can’t just go, “Oh, I was just working at the chip sh...
EDDIE IZZARD There's something weird, something phenomenally dreary about Christian singing. The Gospel singers a...
EDDIE IZZARD I am an evil giraffe, and I shall eat more leaves from this tree then prehaps I should, so that othe...
EDDIE IZZARD Guns don't kill people, people kill people, and monkeys do too (if they have a gun).
EDDIE IZZARD I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
EDDIE IZZARD But with dogs, we do have “bad dog.” Bad dog exists. “Bad dog! Bad dog! Stole a biscuit, bad d...
EDDIE IZZARD Puberty is the sickest joke God plays on us. So you're just noticing members of the sex: "Girls girl...
EDDIE IZZARD Tea and cake or death...students with beards 'tea and cake or death, tea and cake or death...little ...
EDDIE IZZARD I'm an action transvestite really, so it's running, jumping, climbing trees... putting on make-up wh...
EDDIE IZZARD you know, god should have grabbed a scribers arm and made him write "but before that they were a bit...
EDDIE IZZARD Cause if you're a transvestite, you're actually a male tomboy, that's where the sexuality is. Yeah, ...
EDDIE IZZARD Twang him into a tree!
EDDIE IZZARD ‘Cause, "Cake or death?" That's a pretty easy question. Anyone could answer that."Cake or deat...
EDDIE IZZARD [Mock singing] “And shall my sword sleep in my hand…” [Speaking] “NOT a good idea, you’re ...
EDDIE IZZARD Socrates was killed… by his own people. He was! [Nods head]. Coz he questioned everything… ‘Wh...
EDDIE IZZARD I saw something in a program on something in Miami, and they were saying, "We've redecorated this bu...
EDDIE IZZARD You piss me off you Salmon... You're too expensive in restaurants.
EDDIE IZZARD I'm a one-man idiot
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EDDIE IZZARD And they always find in archeology “a series of small walls.” Every time, a series of small wall...
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EDDIE IZZARD 'ello, Sue. I've got legs. Do you like bread? I've got a French loaf. Bye! I love you
EDDIE IZZARD Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin… I poked a badger with a spoon.
EDDIE IZZARD If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.
EDDIE IZZARD Did I leave the gas on? No! No, I'm a fuckin' squirrel!
EDDIE IZZARD Pol Pot killed one point seven million Cambodians, died under house arrest, well done there. Stalin ...
EDDIE IZZARD Performance enhancing drugs are banned in the Olympics. Ok, we canswing with that. But performance d...
EDDIE IZZARD Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.
EDDIE IZZARD You know, Catholicism, we believed in the teachings of Cathol, and everything it stood for...
EDDIE IZZARD My name is NOT Tracy
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EDDIE IZZARD 'PiAno,piAno'It's not a bloody piano, its a clarenARt...you weird talking person.
EDDIE IZZARD It all bottomed out with the Renaissance Period. Ren-ais-sance. That’s Renaissance, FRENCH for ‘...
EDDIE IZZARD Picasso, he should have been a taxidermist!“I’ve done your dog. It’s got nine eyes down the si...
EDDIE IZZARD So my choice is 'Or Death?'.
EDDIE IZZARD We stole countries with the cunning use of flags! Yeah, just sail around the world and stick a flag ...
EDDIE IZZARD I'm an Action Transvestite
EDDIE IZZARD There’s a huge hole in the whole Flood drama, because anything that could float or swim got away s...
EDDIE IZZARD ‘Cause, "Cake or death?" That's a pretty easy question. Anyone could answer that.
"Cake or dea...
EDDIE IZZARD I'm covered in bees!
EDDIE IZZARD If you are an LGBT+ person and you come out, you have to go through your knight’s quest to create ...
EDDIE IZZARD I don't believe that competitions are important.
EDDIE IZZARD My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gi...
EDDIE IZZARD I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.
EDDIE IZZARD There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
EDDIE IZZARD They tend to come out a colour called 'Pants left in wash'
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EDDIE IZZARD People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to ...
EDDIE HUANG So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president -...
EDDIE VEDDER The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.
EDDIE VEDDER I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get...
EDDIE VEDDER Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.
EDDIE REDMAYNE Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.
EDDIE TRUNK Two years ago, I shot 'Pillars of the Earth' in Budapest - it was a big part, but I had a lo...
EDDIE REDMAYNE Guys like Howard Stern, Bill O'Reilly, Jim Rome, Bill Maher, those are the guys I love and respe...
EDDIE TRUNK It's a character-builder to be a fan of the Chicago Cubs.
EDDIE VEDDER As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably m...
EDDIE VEDDER I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.
EDDIE VEDDER If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.
EDDIE VEDDER At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adr...
EDDIE VEDDER You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amo...
EDDIE VEDDER It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of po...
EDDIE VEDDER I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
EDDIE VEDDER The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we hav...
EDDIE VEDDER When it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive mu...
EDDIE VEDDER Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
EDDIE VEDDER It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.
EDDIE VEDDER Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
EDDIE VEDDER The love received is the love that is saved.
EDDIE VEDDER Caffeine. The gateway drug.
EDDIE VEDDER I still love radio, but TV is also an awesome platform.
EDDIE TRUNK I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artist...
EDDIE TRUNK I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I ...
EDDIE TRUNK My books are personal: I'm not saying they're the Bible of music.
EDDIE TRUNK I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I lik...
EDDIE TRUNK I am so appreciative of all the attention I've gotten, especially since I don't ever conside...
EDDIE TRUNK When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the in...
EDDIE TRUNK I have never said anything critical about Ozzy that he didn't say about himself many times.
EDDIE TRUNK Jon Bon Jovi is remarkable.
EDDIE TRUNK It's hard for people to realize now, but my gosh, when I was in school, you could not name a gro...
EDDIE TRUNK One of the things I've done on my shows is tell stories and do interviews.
EDDIE TRUNK People sometimes tell me that I don't talk or act or look like a metal fan. Well, what does a me...
EDDIE TRUNK I've known Bret Michaels forever.
EDDIE TRUNK I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, &#...
EDDIE TRUNK One thing I've learned, and I don't really blame anybody for this: most people who have a lo...
EDDIE TRUNK I've been urged by people forever to try and start a real Rock Hall of Fame. I've had some v...
EDDIE TRUNK The biggest compliments I've heard about 'That Metal Show' are the ones from people that...
EDDIE TRUNK VH1 Classic is the destination for people who would be interested in a music talk show.
EDDIE TRUNK How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the materia...
EDDIE TRUNK One thing people would be surprised about is that although hard rock and heavy metal are without que...
EDDIE TRUNK The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? ...
EDDIE TRUNK People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always think...
EDDIE TRUNK Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like J...
EDDIE TRUNK Metal never goes away. It drifts in and out, but the true fans are always there for it.
EDDIE TRUNK They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army - thousands of guys have done that....
EDDIE SLOVIK I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime y...
EDDIE SLOVIK I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble.
EDDIE SLOVIK Army life don't agree with me.
EDDIE SLOVIK The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too...
EDDIE SLOVIK I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.
EDDIE SLOVIK I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
EDDIE SLOVIK Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.
EDDIE SLOVIK Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.
EDDIE SLOVIK Sports of every sort had always appealed to me.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER I am not a labor hater.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy ...
EDDIE RICKENBACKER It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER Long practise in driving a racing car at a hundred miles an hour or so gives first-class training in...
EDDIE RICKENBACKER I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, ...
EDDIE RICKENBACKER I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, ...
EDDIE RICKENBACKER Fighting in the air is not a sport. It is scientific murder.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER Never count on the crowd to take care of you.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was bas...
EDDIE REDMAYNE What I love about acting is trying things and screwing up, then trying again, all in this protected ...
EDDIE REDMAYNE As someone who gets nervous in silences, I spill words rather than really think.
EDDIE REDMAYNE They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they'...
EDDIE REDMAYNE I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great...
EDDIE REDMAYNE When you start out acting, you dream of getting an agent and getting a job. For years, you audition ...
EDDIE REDMAYNE If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.
EDDIE REDMAYNE Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to ...
EDDIE REDMAYNE And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world want...
EDDIE REDMAYNE I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory...
EDDIE REDMAYNE As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about su...
EDDIE REDMAYNE I'm trying to buy a house and set some sense of roots because otherwise you're constantly ch...
EDDIE REDMAYNE If I do a film and have to get naked, that tends to dictate how often I go to the gym. Acting in ...
EDDIE REDMAYNE I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordi...
EDDIE REDMAYNE What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by rac...
EDDIE REDMAYNE A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfl...
EDDIE REDMAYNE That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear...
EDDIE REDMAYNE Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own ...
EDDIE REDMAYNE I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, ev...
EDDIE REDMAYNE I did an interview once where I was asked who I found attractive and I went on about cartoons and Na...
EDDIE REDMAYNE I am through with baseball forever. I have my farm and my home and enough to take care of me, so why...
EDDIE PLANK There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to ...
EDDIE PLANK You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
EDDIE PEREZ At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
EDDIE PEREZ Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.
EDDIE PEREZ My energy level has not changed.
EDDIE PEREZ A lapse in judgment is not a crime.
EDDIE PEREZ Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you lo...
EDDIE PEREZ If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the ...
EDDIE OBENG We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.
EDDIE OBENG We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no l...
EDDIE OBENG