You’ve got to believe you can be a standup before you can be a standup. You have to believe you can act before you can act. You have to believe you can be an astronaut before you can be an astronaut. You’ve got to believe.
Interpretation
Believing in yourself is the first step to achieving your goals.
Eddie Izzard emphasizes the fundamental role of self-belief in achieving any aspiration. Whether one wants to be a comedian, an actor, or an astronaut, the journey begins with the confidence that it is possible to reach that goal. Without this foundational belief, taking the necessary actions toward success becomes significantly more challenging.
In practice
During a motivational speech to inspire students to pursue their dreams.
We stole countries with the cunning use of flags. Just sail around the world and stick a flag in. "I claim India for Britain!" They're going "You can't claim us, we live here! Five hundred million of us!" "Do you have a flag …? "No..." "Well, if you don't have a flag, then you can't have a country. Those are the rules... that I just made up!
I work everyday, but every day is a holiday for me because I enjoy my work.
You don't show up on game day and expect to be great. Greatness happens _x000D_ in practice. You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
If your attention is focused only on the result, then you are no longer in the process. But if you're in the process, then the result is guaranteed.
I'm a survivor in a business that constantly rejects you.
Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.
I can't never stop nobody, can't knock nobody hustle.
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