Trixie Mattel Quotes

I feel that I'm sort of playing me but more feminine, and to me more feminine means smarter.

I think I always resented the fact that people thought I was trying to entertain them with my multifaceted, chameleonlike character changes. Although I liked doing that, I wasn't out to fool people and say 'Guess which one is me.'

I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself.

We are all doing drag. Every single person on this planet is doing it.

I think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don't have to show an exact picture of who I am.

I find it really cool when people have this artist persona they can put on. They can go out and act like this other person; I can't pull that off... I can't censor myself.

Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.

Even on the stage, I've played a bit of a persona, and the persona I played was a much brasher, more arrogant, less aware, less educated version of me.

Modelling asks you to be conscious of your outer self, but with acting, you have to let that go.

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

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

I never come out of drag to go anywhere. Everywhere I go I get all dressed up.

My band persona is 25% tougher than I am.

I'm clown realness!

I'm just authentically, unapologetically myself. In and out of drag, in and out of the gig, in and out of the studio. My friends know. Miss Thing Over There wakes up 8 A.M. and she's on. The sun, the rain, the snow, whatever's going on outside, I'm ready.

People see me as someone who doesn't take any crap from anyone - which I don't - but it's my shtick, and I obviously don't act like that all the time.

We don't vogue, we are 'Vogue'.

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.

I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.

Me in drag is kind of scary, actually. It's frightening. I actually look pretty good.

One of the great things about wrestling is how it interrogates this silly idea that you have one authentic self.

Who I am on stage is just an amped up version of who I am in real life.

The body cannot lie. You cannot be somebody else onstage, no matter how good of an actor or dancer or singer you are. When you open your arms, move your finger, the audience knows who you are, you know.

I kind of keep my personality in my pocket a lot. When I start to do stand-up, that's not my true personality either. It's the personality of a guy who hasn't been able to say what he wanted to say.

I always try to bring a certain masculine presence to what I do. That is part of the dynamic.