Willam Belli Quotes

I'm a drag queen who is thoughtful and serious about drag in addition to being funny, ambitious, and glamourous.

I started out in this business in rock and roll bands and stumbled into drag. Drag just happened to be my vehicle for my creativity. So, you know, it's afforded me the opportunity to create new shows, to make music.

A drag queen on time is not a drag queen.

Drag isn't always about expensive rhinestone gowns; it's about what's entertaining.

I consider myself an artist, but instead of paint or clay, my medium is drag. I put so much of myself into my drag from every detail of the costume, makeup and hair to my performance, the way I speak or even stand.

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.

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.

My home is at the WWE. I truly do love performing. The atmosphere here isn't like anything else. It's truly where I belong.

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me.

All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it.

I can only appreciate the kind of work that goes into being a top drag queen. Ru Paul looks just astonishing as a woman. And he's got this fantastic turn of phrase. I find him hilarious.

Performing live is a part of who I am.

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.

I think that drag makes anything better.

Back in the day, when a man in a wig had to 'lip sync for their life,' they relied on a wig reveal, rose petals or picking up their opponent and twirling them around.

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

I've never done drag, but I'd love to try it.

If I was strictly an artist, I'd have to learn to dance and get a shiny suit and stuff.

There's so many more themes of drag than just fierceness.

I guess a drag queen's like an oil painting: You gotta stand back from it to get the full effect.

There are other artists out there, in which some like to write and others like to perform and others like to talk, but I really just love to perform and entertain.

Somebody like Bowie was so interesting because when you got him off stage, he was like a businessman. But on stage, he was just dazzling. It was like watching butterflies grow.

At heart, I was always a performer, not a competitor.

I guess drag queens, by nature, have to do everything. When you start being a drag queen, you're grabbing the microphone, hosting the shows. Then, you're setting the microphone down and doing the number. You're spending the day before doing your wigs and sewing your costumes. You're doing everything.

Any sort of performance was always what I was really born to do.