Christine and the Queens Quotes

I'm acting when I serve as a hostess, when I run my wig business. I was born to act, and life itself is the greatest part.

I can't take the theater side out of myself.

We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.

Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.

There are a lot of different facets to my personality that I don't use all the time in my house, or in everyday life, that I can experience and share when I'm on a stage.

Modelling asks you to be conscious of your outer self, but with acting, you have to let that go.

We're all performing for someone.

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

I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

A woman is like an actress: she's always onstage.

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

I find it really cool when people have this artist persona they can put on. They can go out and act like this other person; I can't pull that off... I can't censor myself.

I do belong on stage.

I was always very dramatic - my family would probably use the word 'dramatic' - as a child; always putting on performances, making everyone come watch, and pay to watch. I was very business-savvy as a child.

Acting like the person I'm supposed to be has always been the easiest thing for me.

It's all performing; that's what we do in life. We talk, we look, and we hear, and we listen. Your life is a performance.

I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes.

Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.

I'm not running for office. I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.

I find it very hard to play a part, then take it off like a cheap suit and become Mr Normal - Mr. Nice Guy.

I think there is no world without theatre.

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

When I'm on stage, that's me. It's blown up, but that's me.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.