BeBe Zahara Benet Quotes

Drag should push the limits of what is considered fashionable or beautiful.

The truth is I do take drag really seriously, and I think that there's kind of a place for that - to see it as this political and historical art form, and to want to continue pushing it in new directions. And also honor the old directions as well. So I'm sort of like a drag intellectual/drag queen.

When I started doing drag, I always put together multimedia elements for live performance.

I'm not going to do an album. There's enough horrible drag queens singing - especially when they do that spoken word over music, 'I'm fierce! I'm fierce!'

I'm slightly obsessed with drag queens and performers. Their quips and their one-liners, their style, their singing... I find it fascinating. And thoroughly entertaining. I'd love to play one.

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

I'm certainly not inventing anything new with drag.

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

People are slowly realizing that they're looking at drag all the time. 'Mrs. Doubtfire.' 'Real Housewives.' Peewee Herman. Don't let calling it drag make you uncomfortable.

I think every city and every drag queen has a different aesthetic or set up, but in the end, it's mutual respect for one another.

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.

Something that I love about drag is that it's a celebration of feminity.

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

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

Most drag queens, they put on music like it's a costume. It's not in their bones. It's not in their background.

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

I think the reason people are propping up drag queens is because it's popular with the fans that identify with them, so we're great for marketing. We're not allowed to be the Christmas tree, we're just allowed to be the decorations, and I still think we're looked at as clowns by a majority of the society.

I've always wanted to play a role as a producer and a curator and to help make drag really have an epic scale and a large audience and a lot of interest.

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

I do drag. Just because my drag is not the drag of Creme Fatale or Holy McGrail doesn't mean it's less drag. I perform live; I just sing with dancers. It's drag on a different level.

Drag is a little scary, especially for a gay man who's not comfortable with his feminine side.

A drag queen on time is not a drag queen.

I have an art magazine about drag called 'Velour,' named after myself, and I have a monthly show called 'Nightgowns' that curates and presents some of the most creative and high-quality drag in a professional theater setting.

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