Jamie Farr Quotes

The crux of drag is outsiders looking in. That's all it is.

My own experience of gender has been about a lot of fluidity. In drag, I like to combine aspects of masculinity and femininity and rewrite the rules for those.

I love wearing drag.

When not dressed as Conchita I am a man, and a lazy one at that.

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

I guess historically, drag queens were imitating movie stars and luminaries. It's kind of nice to have a movie star imitating a drag queen.

I always did what I thought was interesting. I always just did what caught my fantasy. Looking like a woman, that was never the criteria for me. It was always to do drag. And drag is not gender-specific. Drag is just drag. It's exaggeration.

I've seen some very beautiful drag queens.

I always wear something slightly masculine.

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

I feel like I'm a drag queen.

I like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress up like my little brother. No makeup, and I looked like a boy.

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

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

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 watched the classics as a kid, and I could tell that Bugs Bunny in drag was a cartoon and a joke. It didn't make me start dressing in drag.

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

Drag really isn't just about exaggerating and celebrating femininity. Some drag queens want to look like monsters, some drag queens want to look like hot dogs. Really what it is is just dipping your toes in all the swimming pools of identity and allowing yourself. Because society really tries to compartmentalize humans in a certain way.

As a drag performer, my identity exists in music, art, and fashion, not in any one 'language' of gender or 'appearance.'

You can have a beard and do drag; you can be a woman and do drag. I've met faux queens. I've met kings. Anything that you want can be considered drag in the context.

My sex appeal lies in suits and ties, but my body is femme.

I started out as being a diva in a golden dress and now to a more bearded drag artist guy in boots.

I was gender-nonconforming in high school in terms of the way I dressed, in terms of the way I cut my hair.

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

There have always been drag queens everywhere.