Drag Queen Quotes

Purim, one of my favorite holidays. It's like the original drag queen's holiday. It's when all the Jewish men go for it and feel no guilt for a change.

The weird thing about all the drag queen Patsys and Eddies from "Absolutely Fabulous" is they are so beautiful, and so tall, and so slim that it sort of puts us to shame.

I've seen some very beautiful drag queens.

I scare people a little bit, so why not? That's what we do as drag queens. We're supposed to be a little intimidating!

Hair extensions and wigs are not the same thing. Wigs are for old ladies and drag queens. Extensions are for women who want longer hair. To be safe, never bring it up if you think a woman is wearing either. No good comes of it.

Drag queen is a gender like no other, and with practice I'd learned to rise to it.

I believe it was Today show fourth-hour host Kathie Lee Gifford who said, 'If drag queens love you, you'll have the longest career in the world.  They know phony and they know real.'

We are all illusionists and that's why we are attracted to drag queens. This whole world is an illusion. It's not real.

That's the thing I loved about drag queens, life was a constant movie; no matter how ridiculously things didn't match they would sacrifice everything for the pose, and I was definitely into the pose.

I feel like I'm a drag queen.

Basically I'm a drag queen myself.

Hell hath no fury like a drag queen scorned.

I am never offended when I see the drag-queens dressed up like me.

I first learned how to do hair from drag queens. I learned eyelashes are the key to life, because they make everyone look fabulous.

I feel like I have an inner drag queen. Or rather, I feel like I was a drag queen in a past life.

I think part of me would love to play a drag queen, just because it would be an excuse to wear loads of eye makeup.

If I hadn't been a woman, I'd have been a drag queen

Give a drag queen a fish and you feed her for a day; show her how to be fishy and you feed her for a lifetime.

I love drag queens and they love me.

I guess a drag queen's like an oil painting: You gotta stand back from it to get the full effect.

Ego loves identity. Drag mocks identity. Ego hates drag

I quite love sequins; I think it's the drag queen in me.

I'd love to do a show in Vegas with drag queens. The tackier the better.

I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself.

I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

This requires a level of delusion/egomania usually reserved for popes and drag queens

Cause if you're a transvestite, you're actually a male tomboy, that's where the sexuality is. Yeah, it's not drag queen, no; gay men have got that covered. This is male tomboy, and people do get that mixed up, they put transvestite there - no no no no! Little bit of a crowbar separation, thank you! And gay men, I think, would agree. It's male lesbian, that's really where it is, ok? Because... it's true! 'Cause most transvestites fancy girls, fancy women. So that's where it is.

My little cousin Jimmy told me in jail he was a drag queen.

A Rubik's cube is equal to a drag queen. It's really colorful, but I don't wanna do it.

I'm bi everything; sexual, coastal, political, controversial. I think if you find your comfortable sexual preference then that's excellent. Everybody knows that I'm a huge fan of gay men and drag queens and would not be who I am today without their help, support and make-up tips.

It's a sort of piss-take on culture, because a drag queen is a clown - a parody of our society. It's a sarcastic spoof on culture, which allows us to laugh at ourselves - but in a way that is inclusive of everyone.

There are easier things in life than being a drag queen. But I ain't got no choice. Try as I may, I just can't walk in flats.

The world is your catwalk, so just remember this when you're out there.

At 13, when I was a runaway, I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland, Ore. We didn't always know where our next meal was coming from, but there was so much camaraderie and love. Not to mention, those girls could paint a face, and I learned how because of them.

I am not a boy, not a girl, I am not gay, not straight, I am not a drag queen, not a transsexual - I am just me, Jackie.

The transgender movement even divides itself up by gender, as many folks stick with their same trans-genders (female-to-male or male-to-female). Additionally, the movement gets strangely subdivided among, for example, male cross-dressers, sissy boys, butch women, femme dykes, drag kings, drag queens, transvestites, intersexed, transsexuals (post-op, pre-op, and non-op).

As gay people, we always think outside of the box. The irreverent is always important to a drag queen and anyone else who lives outside the box. And this is why drag's important: remember to not take life seriously. It's always important to see the laughter in the illusion that we pretend is real.

If I hadn't been a woman, I'd be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I'd be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I'd be like Ru Paul.

I am a pig! I love to eat! i will eat anything! If you put it front of me, I will put it in my mouth, even if it doesn't taste good! And I can't stop eating until all the food is gone. It's probably one of the contributing factors as to why I became a drag queen. I can eat whatever I want, because I can just strap myself into a corset!

I love drag queens and I love going to see them perform because those people have got so much character and bravery. Such balls! I love people with balls.

I would be happier if it were a full audience full of drag queens. It would be my dreams come true.

As an Asian American, I'm aware of how stereotypes can be very destructive. We've been defined by the drag queens. And yes, they exist. But we've been defined as irresponsible, flamboyant, loud, and garish. I think what we need to do - and what we haven't done as aggressively as we should have - is to depict the vast diversity of the GLBT community.

Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment.

Maketa Groves has a strong, bright lyric gift. Her poems come out of music and are full of music. They bring us the sounds of the streets and the sounds of nature, and make us see once again that they are parts of the same song. She celebrates American lives as they are lived today: the mother scrubbing her kitchen floor at midnight, the drag-queens in the Tenderloin, the homeless woman knitting in the courtyard. This is poetry that relentlessly shows us the beauty in the world, with all its struggles and complexity, and demands that we go out to meet it with open hearts.

Don't take life too seriously.

Free Agents' was an awesome experience. I never play the glam girl in anything, so that was a new experience. I would walk into one of my trailers and it would be like Spanx, a spray-tan gun, and chicken cutlets. I would have hair extensions. It was hilarious. Every day felt like I was turning into an awesome drag queen.

I can't express how much admiration I have for women in general, who walk around in high heels, but, drag queens, oh my god.

Actors are basically drag queens. People will tell you they act because they want to heal mankind or, you know, explore the nature of the human psyche. Yes, maybe. But basically we just want to put on a frock and dance.