Sasha Velour Quotes

There have always been drag queens everywhere.

I love wearing drag.

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

My own experience of gender has been about a lot of fluidity. In drag, I like to combine aspects of masculinity and femininity and rewrite the rules for those.

I love the creativity and the social and political aspects of drag.

As a drag performer, my identity exists in music, art, and fashion, not in any one 'language' of gender or 'appearance.'

I guess historically, drag queens were imitating movie stars and luminaries. It's kind of nice to have a movie star imitating a drag queen.

I am happy being a man in a dress. Some people get confused and think I'm a trans woman, but I'm strict about the difference. What I do is performance, it's staged, it's glamour - it's not real life. But for trans people, being born in the wrong body - there's nothing glamorous or easy about that.

From the second there was drag, trans people were doing it. And when cis women started being allowed in theaters, then cis women doing drag was part of theater.

We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.

I always said if I played a drag queen, I'd want to create a template with the realness they talk about in 'Paris Is Burning.'

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

I feel like I'm a drag queen.

It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth.

The characters I've played that people have noticed included a cross-dresser and a transsexual.

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

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

For me, choosing to perform in drag, because of all the things I enjoy about it, is a political act.

I think drag is universal, no matter who does it. I mean, yeah, I am homosexual, but I think everybody likes to toy with their image. I love those guys. I love Milton Berle and Flip Wilson and all those people.

Everybody is in drag.

Drag has been featured in popular culture for decades. Movies like 'Kinky Boots,' 'Tootsie,' 'The Birdcage' - even 'Mrs. Doubtfire' - have showcased men, some gay, some not, who dress and perform as women.

Drag should push the limits of what is considered fashionable or beautiful.

I'm an artist who happens to be in drag. And I think that's why my drag is a little different.

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

Being trans, I've grown up with the understanding that most women are born girls, yet some are born boys. And most men are born boys, yet some are born girls. And if you're ready for this, some people are born girls or boys and choose to identify outside our society's binary system, making them genderqueer.