RuPaul Quotes

Drag has always been the thing you turn to to remember to not take yourself too seriously.

I wouldn't be posting videos of me in drag or doing a remake of Zoolander's orange mocha frappuccino scene if I didn't still like attention.

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.'

If I had written a book saying, 'Ladies, your life is terrible,' I would have sold three copies. It's always better to laugh people into recognition.

I don't think it's wrong to make fun of some of the stuff that we think and we do.

I don't dress up as a woman: I dress up as a caricature of a caricature of a woman.

The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.

We're not all Jon Stewart. I know I'm not. I dropped out of college. Why would you come to me for anything that may influence your fact-based perspective? I think that the job of a comic is to be emotionally true.

It's important in drag to challenge things and present your own vision.

There is no harm in making people laugh by making fun of yourself. What's wrong is when people derive pleasure from making fun of others.

I've been obsessed with David Letterman forever, and I'd love to be the drag version of David Letterman.

We have to be able to poke fun at ourselves.

My concept is drag queens are not a reflection of society, they are a fun house reflection of society where we bend, and twist and manipulate the anxieties we all feel.

I'm super happy to say that it's not that hard to write bad stand-up. I guess the trick is to write bad stand-up that sounds like you're trying to be good.

We're never going to please everyone, but all the great Jewish comics have succeeded through irreverence and self deprecation.

I don't take myself or the species too seriously. You have to laugh at everything.

I'm a funny guy. I want people to laugh. I laugh at myself, I make fun of myself. But at the end of the day everything that I say has a message in it.

As a comedian, I am attracted to truths that are uncomfortable. I like funny bummers.

In 'Who's Who,' my hobbies are listed as eating, sleeping, and voicing one's opinion. Not necessarily the right opinion, but it's mine.

When you're laughing aloud at David Sedaris' every sentence, it's easy to miss the more serious side of what he's up to.

The whole point of real comedy is that you can say something that is true, and by being funny, you can make it tolerable for people, and hopefully they'll laugh at you, too.

Garry Shandling's stand-up specials were masterpieces of tightly crafted stories that delivered both hard jokes and hard truths. He was neurotic and self-deprecating, and his observations on life cut deep.

I suppose you could say that I majored in men and minored in psychology.