RuPaul Quotes

Drag threatens people because it exposes and mocks identity. Because most people believe that they are what it says they are on their driver's license. But the truth is we are all born naked, and the rest is drag.

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

I feel like I'm a drag queen.

Everybody is in drag.

When not dressed as Conchita I am a man, and a lazy one at that.

Politics remind me a lot of 'RuPaul's Drag Race.' It's real but it isn't.

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.

In my show I announce, 'People say Lady Gaga is a lie, and they are right. I am a lie. And every day I kill to make it true.'

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

I think it [Trouble In Mind] was the only time Divine didn't appear in drag, or certainly one of the few times, anyway. Alan created a time and place that was no time and no place, so it was not identifiable with any particular period or any particular city or any particular country, for that matter. I mean, everybody spoke English, but that was about it. So you couldn't pigeonhole that film.

It's taken my entire life to negotiate how to identify, and I've done a lot of research and a lot of studying, i could have a long conversation, an academic conversation about that. I don't know. I just feel like I didn't mislead anybody; I didn't deceive anybody.

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

Yes, I am transgendered but I also am a cross-dresser - I dress as a woman. It's not that I just want to be seen as a female in our society, I'm also a drag queen and a performer - there are many levels there.

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

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

I love wearing drag.

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

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'm not 'one of the guys.' I don't want to pretend to be one on stage. I'm not going to dress like a guy or carry myself like one.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

I was the first man to put on a dress and play it straight. That was something very fresh. Still is.

People ask me, 'Have you done much drag?' And I say, 'I don't think of it as drag. I'm playing a woman!'

The crux of drag is outsiders looking in. That's all it is.

If I want to say I'm a man for three minutes, then be it: I'm a man for three minutes.

I watched the classics as a kid, and I could tell that Bugs Bunny in drag was a cartoon and a joke. It didn't make me start dressing in drag.