Conchita Wurst Quotes

I like shocking people just because, like, I can wear a dress, too. Not even for people to go, 'Oh she's grown up,' but to show people that I'm actually a girl.

I've changed as a person because of the art of drag.

Breaking gender norms just comes instantly as soon as a boy is comfortable and confident enough to put on makeup.

In 1969, I started wearing female attire full-time.

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.

If I want to wear a dress, I'll wear a dress.

There have been actresses who transitioned and nobody knew. But for me, with everybody knowing my history, it will be harder. I'm sure there are some great scripts calling for an ultra-glamorous woman. And I'm prepared to be ultra-glamorous.

I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.

If you feel inside you are a woman, be a woman - no one can take that away from you, man. No one can make that feeling go away. If that's what you need to do to be complete, then no one has the right to tell you you can't do that.

When you transition, everyone kind of has to transition around you.

I've only dressed in drag three or four times.

I love wearing drag.

I can't wait to be seen as a woman. But I know I probably have to contribute to that with behaviour.

I never felt like a boy or a girl, never felt I should wear this or dress like that. I think that's where that confidence comes from because I never felt I had to play a part in my life. I just always come as Shamir.

Someday I'm going to go onstage in a dress if I want to.

Oh, completely liberating because even if you don't do a woman right, you just have to put on high heels a wig, a bra and a dress, and I feel liberated.

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

I'm still a tomboy at heart. In high school, I was the girl in the baggy jeans and Timberlands, but I was also at the hairdresser's every week.

The way I need to look, it's a very personal thing. When I started experimenting, it was to make myself feel happy, to look in the mirror and be satisfied. I never did drag or anything like that. It was always that I wanted to be pretty, to look beautiful, as a girl would want to.

I think I have femininity, I have masculinity, but I get to use all of Jeffrey, and that's very powerful. And this is what I always thought when I went down in my little basement in San Francisco, where I grew up, and daydreamed about being an actor: It felt like this. This is what it felt like.

I want to show the world that if you want to be a bearded lady you are allowed to do it without being discriminated against.

Drag is really about reminding people that you are more than you think you are - you are more than what it says on your passport.

If you want to be a bearded lady then you are allowed to do that because you're not hurting anybody.

I certainly wanted Hedwig's world to be one where identification and categories are fluid, changing, and confusing, as they are, really, in life.

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.