Lawrence O'Donnell Quotes

I dress like a boy most of the time because I like what's comfortable, so sometimes when I have to wear dresses and makeup, it's kind of comedic.

The cool thing about being in drag, just like getting to play a role in a play, is that you get to play a fantasy and you get to play someone else that you're not used to.

I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself.

I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.

One of the great things about wrestling is how it interrogates this silly idea that you have one authentic self.

Singing is an incredible expression and something that is important to me, but where I feel comfortable with how much I reveal about myself is acting. I enjoy the characters, the costumes, the wigs and just being a chameleon.

Everybody is in drag.

No matter what you're doing, whether it's a makeup tutorial or an interview or a lip sync, performance is the essence of drag. It is gender performance. Being able to produce a performance is what a superstar has to do.

Breaking gender norms just comes instantly as soon as a boy is comfortable and confident enough to put on makeup.

We are all doing drag. Every single person on this planet is doing it.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

I think it would be a lot easier if I said, 'I feel like a dude,' but I was raised by a southern mom, so I know how to put on lipstick and walk in heels and rock that look. It's exactly that juxtaposition that confuses people.

Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.

I'm a director, but I gotta have the hair, the makeup and the heels. My mother would be appalled if I didn't dress up.

Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

I want to be a guy, but I want to wear a lot of makeup.

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity.

I feel like I'm a drag queen.

Oh, completely liberating because even if you don't do a woman right, you just have to put on high heels a wig, a bra and a dress, and I feel liberated.

I have a wig for when I go outside among the regular folks, so they don't feel uncomfortable because I have a Day-Glo color somewhere in my hair.

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.