"Actually, I don't consider myself TV and I don't wear women's clothes. I just wear dresses, make-up, whatever. It's pointless calling myself transvestite, 'cost that means cross-dresser, and I'm simply wearing what I want to wear."

Eddie Izzard
from Attitude, 1995

"I don't know why they think I'm a transvestite, because I'm not. Surely, I'm a bank clerk."

"It's genetic. I've wanted to wear girls' clothes since I was four, when I saw a young boy on our estate wearing a dress."

"I wanted to like myself. I didn't want to be a coward. I wanted to be able to walk down the street as a TV, and if I got beaten up, I wanted to be able to stay on my feet and afterwards take them to court. I wanted to be the person who wasn't scared."

"Women can wear whatever clothes they want, so there are no women transvestites, so I say there's no men transvestites"

"I want to take TV's away from the fringe area and introduce them into society - but through comedy rather than just being someone who clumps around in a dress. As I look at it, women wear dresses, so why not men?"

"Now all I want is for blokeish men to say I'm OK but some people will always consider me over the line."