RuPaul Quotes

Drag really isn't just about exaggerating and celebrating femininity. Some drag queens want to look like monsters, some drag queens want to look like hot dogs. Really what it is is just dipping your toes in all the swimming pools of identity and allowing yourself. Because society really tries to compartmentalize humans in a certain way.

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

You can have a beard and do drag; you can be a woman and do drag. I've met faux queens. I've met kings. Anything that you want can be considered drag in the context.

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.

Everybody is in drag.

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

I don't think drag will ever be mainstream because it's counter to what the mainstream directive is, which is picking an identity and sticking with it for the rest of your life.

I consider myself a boy in a dress.

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

I feel like I'm a drag queen.

I don't think of myself as a model. I'm genderqueer, and I've got tattoos.

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

It's not like, 'Okay, today I want to look like a man, or today I want to look like a woman.' I want to look like me. It just so happens that some of the things I like are feminine.

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.

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.

Absolutely anyone can and must do drag.

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

I was always a pretty theatrical kid, a draggy kid... a little sissy. I dressed up in my grandma's heels and clothes... It's always been in me.

I was in a band with a boy who was quite androgynous and a bit bisexual, and we used to play up to that a little bit to be provocative in a theatrical way, but I guess you either are or aren't.

I loved being a man-woman. It's much more interesting than being one or the other.

I am not a drag queen.

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

If I was a man, I would be a drag queen. Honestly, I would. I absolutely love it.