Billy Porter Quotes

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.

I love wearing drag.

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

There have always been drag queens everywhere.

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've seen some very beautiful drag queens.

I feel like I'm a drag queen.

I'm trying to take drag back to its down-and-dirty roots where people get offended at first, and then they're like, 'Oh my God, this crazy queen.'

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

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

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself.

I have an inner drag queen. Or rather, I feel like I was a drag queen in a past life.

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

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

I hope that people look at Brooklyn as kind of a drag utopia, because that's what it's been in my experience - all genders and bodies and ages doing drag.

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

I think that drag, being mainstream, it's such a wonderful thing because even my sister, years ago, they thought it was so taboo and didn't understand it, or maybe they thought, 'Justin, do you want to be a woman?' and I'm like, 'No, Alyssa's my character.'

The way I've always looked at drag has been a little bit different maybe than other people because the drag community that I started doing drag in is full of trans people and women and people of various educational backgrounds, of different ages.

I didn't invent the bearded lady. It's been around for ages, and there are so many bearded drag queens out there - but they're not in the mainstream as I am.

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

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 hate drag. It's extremely uncomfortable. It's awful. I'm in a full corset and pads and giant wigs.

Most American adults know what a drag queen is, but as they're portrayed in films like 'Dressed to Kill' and 'Silence of the Lambs.'

Drag artists are more men than real men. You need a lot of courage, personality, and guts to go out there. Even if you look good or you look bad, you still need to have all of those things to be on stage. You're going to get criticized by everyone.