Ben Hopkins Quotes

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

I love wearing drag.

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

I've still never gotten used to myself in drag.

There have always been drag queens everywhere.

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've seen some very beautiful drag queens.

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.

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

The truth is I do take drag really seriously, and I think that there's kind of a place for that - to see it as this political and historical art form, and to want to continue pushing it in new directions. And also honor the old directions as well. So I'm sort of like a drag intellectual/drag queen.

Drag is a little scary, especially for a gay man who's not comfortable with his feminine side.

Drag queens are not pathetic creatures. Drag queens are fabulous and fun.

I wanted to be a drag queen so badly. I'll bet I still own more wigs than any drag queen - I love me a wig.

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.

I feel like I'm a drag queen.

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!'

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

Drag has always been an open space where anyone within the LGBT community can express their creativity.

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.

Drag is pastiche and parody and satire. Drag queens are never meant to be stars. We make fun of stars. Drag queens are the people that 'point' at the star.

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.

Something that I love about drag is that it's a celebration of feminity.

Some drag queens want to get into drag and be sexy and date boys... that ain't me.

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