Ellen Pompeo Quotes

The average person assumes that you're a drag queen so you're a nelly and you want to be a girl, which is not the case, and I think Drag Race has changed that for us.

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.

There have always been drag queens everywhere.

Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want them to be, and the way some women still actually want to be. Drags are ambulatory archives of ideal moviestar womanhood. They perform a documentary service, usually consecrating their lives to keeping the glittering alternative alive and available for (not-too-close) inspection.

I love drag queens and I love going to see them perform because those people have got so much character and bravery. Such balls! I love people with balls.

I always said if I played a drag queen, I'd want to create a template with the realness they talk about in 'Paris Is Burning.'

I've seen some very beautiful drag queens.

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

I love drag queens and they love me.

My parents actually ran drag clubs in Australia, which is how I grew up. It was normal for me. It was my normal. I knew the other kids didn't do it, but for me, it was life, and nothing was wrong with it. I would see nothing wrong with Beyonce having a drag queen nanny. And why not? Everyone needs one! And a great gay man in their life.

People ask me, 'Have you done much drag?' And I say, 'I don't think of it as drag. I'm playing a woman!'

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.'

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

Not all drag queens but certainly the ones who empowered me, are people who pushed buttons, and poked fun at society from Leigh Bowery, to Lady Bunny and Divine.

For so many years women have reached out to drag entertainers asking for help or advice with their style, makeup or they just want to be our friends.

People sometimes think that drag queens are always really confident and fearless because we transform ourselves into these beautiful creatures, and they believe that it's how we live our everyday lives.

When I was on 'Drag Race,' it felt like a serious competition going on between drag queens... and then Katya and I were also there.

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

Some of my favorite drag queens are women.

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.'

I grew up in a house full of women - I have four sisters. I'm more feminine than some gay men.

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

My little cousin Jimmy told me in jail he was a drag queen.

My mother said to me, 'Why do you have to call yourself a dyke? Why can't you be a nice lesbian?' 'Because I'm not a nice lesbian, I'm a big dyke.'

It's a sort of piss-take on culture, because a drag queen is a clown - a parody of our society. It's a sarcastic spoof on culture, which allows us to laugh at ourselves - but in a way that is inclusive of everyone.