Sasha Velour Quotes

People sometimes think that drag queens are always really confident and fearless because we transform ourselves into these beautiful creatures, and they believe that it's how we live our everyday lives.

They say it's good but I didn't know what I was doing until I got into the suit and they put the moustache on me, and somehow, when I got all the drag on, it came out. It was the most amazing thing. I'm truly extraordinary.

Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of going against the grain to begin with, wanting to do that, don't you think? Why else would you do it? Except maybe as kind of a way to affirm your very existence.

I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.

Drag has always made me feel less scared.

I never come out of drag to go anywhere. Everywhere I go I get all dressed up.

I'm proud to be one. I feel a lot stronger, a lot sexier and I think that all of that is reflected in my music.

I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper.

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

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

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'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name.

Me in drag is kind of scary, actually. It's frightening. I actually look pretty good.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

My improv definitely shows a different side of myself, which is more true to what my real humor is and what my real personality is, and I think - I guess 'wild' is a good word for it. I'm still sweet! But I won't let anyone walk all over me.

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

Art helped give me confidence.

Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.

I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.

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

The ideas I'm working with are ideas I'm committed to. I don't know how to soft-shoe them. I don't know how to make them more palpable. I just never knew how to be one of those girls. I wish I knew how to be that sometimes, but I don't know how to be that way.

I did my one-woman show in order to show people what to do with me.

Everyone has something unique to bring to this world. And if you understand that, if you cherish that, if you embrace who you are and then capture that with your clothes... then that is when fashion can make a powerful statement about who you are and what you are about.