Ana Gasteyer Quotes

Anything I do is as theatrical as I can get it.

Drag is there to remind culture not to take itself too seriously. All of this is illusion.

Actors are basically drag queens. People will tell you they act because they want to heal mankind or, you know, explore the nature of the human psyche. Yes, maybe. But basically we just want to put on a frock and dance.

I quite love sequins; I think it's the drag queen in me.

Superwoman is more of a performer, which Lilly isn't. Having said that, I guess both of them are completely over the top, dramatic and full of energy.

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.

You should make an effort on stage because it's a performance. The stage should be glittery and camp, but I don't go down the shops in full stage gear.

When I played Imunique on 'Love That Girl,' that was on the other side of comedy - loud and out there.

I don't dress up as a woman: I dress up as a caricature of a caricature of a woman.

Well, here's my feeling about shtick. I think sometimes if you don't have it going on too much, you're probably feeling insecure and then you want to add on the shtick. I would say, oh, like Kiss. You try to stand out from the crowd, you're going for a bold statement, you're going for a high concept.

I do think there is a bit of Liberace in me.

Drag has always been the thing you turn to to remember to not take yourself too seriously.

I'm always in favor of more glamour. I embarrass my children, I think. I am the lady in feathers in the car pool line.

When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always impersonating and mimicking people. I was a song and dance man.

If it weren't for Liberace, there would be no Madonna or Lady Gaga, Elton John, Bette Midler, or Elvis because it was Liberace who helped the King glitz up his act.

I do dance music, and I can be pretty camp myself from time to time.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets that much, you might as well just pull out all the stops and make it more of a burlesque.

No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.

I like actors - such as Margaret Rutherford and Peter Lorre - who aren't afraid to over-act like real people. When I take a job, I can always come up with ten different ways of doing the part. But I'll always choose the flashiest one. You've got to dress the window a bit.

No other entertainer in the world ever took the risks that Liberace took.

Anytime you get men in glitter, it's a flamboyant occasion!

I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.

The hardest that I've laughed at a movie was probably Team America. I laughed 'til I thought I was just gonna throw up. I almost had to turn it off.

I wouldn't be posting videos of me in drag or doing a remake of Zoolander's orange mocha frappuccino scene if I didn't still like attention.