Eddie Izzard Quotes

You get the wig on, you put the lipstick on, you get the big eyelashes on and that's the GC. It's like Paul O'Grady when he does Lily Savage... But when I'm not working, I don't wear a scrap of makeup.

No matter what you're doing, whether it's a makeup tutorial or an interview or a lip sync, performance is the essence of drag. It is gender performance. Being able to produce a performance is what a superstar has to do.

I think that drag makes anything better.

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 feel like when I'm on stage, when I'm writing songs, singing songs, I'm in the studio, I'm shooting videos, I kind of get to become this character, and I can make that whatever I want to make that.

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

I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.

I feel like I'm a drag queen.

What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

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

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

Drag is a chicken suit, and you're very emboldened. Whatever you do or say or fail at or succeed at is attributed to your costume and not you as a person. So there's a lot of freedom.

Everyone has their own tastes. Some people want to feel like it's Queen onstage, including the dress-up thing, but that's not my style. I do know some people love that and wish I would do it, but I have no interest in that.

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

I've done drag many, many years, but TV is a huge, powerful thing.

I don't socialize in drag anymore. If I'm in drag, I'm usually onstage or in the dressing room or in a car service.

Drag is a gift.

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

I want to act, perform in my own way.

Drag culture has always been about excess.

Drag was not only my introduction to womanhood, but my introduction to entertainment. It was the first time I realized that I could move a crowd.

I mean, I'm a drag queen, any excuse to wear a costume means it's going to be a good time.

I always did what I thought was interesting. I always just did what caught my fantasy. Looking like a woman, that was never the criteria for me. It was always to do drag. And drag is not gender-specific. Drag is just drag. It's exaggeration.

When I'm acting in TV or movies, I'm a character. But when I'm doing music, I'm Trevor Jackson.

The cool thing about being in drag, just like getting to play a role in a play, is that you get to play a fantasy and you get to play someone else that you're not used to.