Trixie Mattel Quotes

I guess drag queens, by nature, have to do everything. When you start being a drag queen, you're grabbing the microphone, hosting the shows. Then, you're setting the microphone down and doing the number. You're spending the day before doing your wigs and sewing your costumes. You're doing everything.

I can only appreciate the kind of work that goes into being a top drag queen. Ru Paul looks just astonishing as a woman. And he's got this fantastic turn of phrase. I find him hilarious.

Drag isn't always about expensive rhinestone gowns; it's about what's entertaining.

I wanted to be a drag queen so badly. I'll bet I still own more wigs than any drag queen - I love me a wig.

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.

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

Acting is all about timing. I mean, who has better timing than the MCs?

'Free Agents' was an awesome experience. I never play the glam girl in anything, so that was a new experience. I would walk into one of my trailers and it would be like Spanx, a spray-tan gun, and chicken cutlets. I would have hair extensions. It was hilarious. Every day felt like I was turning into an awesome drag queen.

I'm a drag queen who is thoughtful and serious about drag in addition to being funny, ambitious, and glamourous.

It's just about being an entertainer; it's about having all those tools over the years to do all sorts: films, musicals, playing a bit of piano, running a quiz show - it just becomes part of the job.

I don't socialize in drag anymore. If I'm in drag, I'm usually onstage or in the dressing room or in a car service.

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

I mean, I'm a drag queen, any excuse to wear a costume means it's going to be a good time.

I've never done drag, but I'd love to try it.

I've always been an entertainer. It's in my blood, in the sense that I've always loved doing it.

I'm an entertainer, period. I can write it, I can speak it, and I can act it.

There's so many more themes of drag than just fierceness.

I really do love doing stand-up, and I don't see why it should affect the acting. And I just want more interesting jobs. I just want to keep doing stuff that's different, rather than saying, "Okay, I've become known for this, and I'll just do this from now on." If I feel like I've done this one thing, I never want to do it again. I want to do something totally different.

I considered myself a professional comedian because the club would pay me $20.

I consider myself an artist, but instead of paint or clay, my medium is drag. I put so much of myself into my drag from every detail of the costume, makeup and hair to my performance, the way I speak or even stand.

I have a ball - and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That's my core business, and that's where I'll always return.

A drag queen on time is not a drag queen.

I feel like I am just an entertainer. It does not matter what form I take to perform and entertain. I think I deserve being called a performer because you don't call Tyler Perry a drag queen. You don't call Will Smith a drag queen and all the other mainstream artists who use the aesthetic of drag to entertain.

People are really seeing that drag is an art form, that it's so much more than self-expression.

A regular old drag queen is usually your science teacher who's actually wearing women's panties underneath his slacks. A drag-queen superstar is someone who actually works in clubs and makes a living doing it more than one night a year, or even one night in six months.