Edward Hall Quotes

We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.

An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.

I go feminine, I go masculine. I am both, actually. I think the male side is a bit stronger in me, and I have to tone it down sometimes. I'm not like a normal woman, that's for sure.

I've always wanted to be a man for a day.

I've given up trying to convince the world about the authenticity of my femininity.

A lot of people still have the idea that drag goes from one end of the gender spectrum to the other end of the gender spectrum, and they expect drag queens to be masculine out of drag and hyper-feminine in drag. I think that portrays a lot of binary thinking and, ultimately, a lot of misogyny.

I use femaleness as another lens, so I don't even think all my creatures are women; I just think that I bring out the femaleness in them.

Dressing up like a woman does not make me less of a man.

There's something about doing Shakespeare with a single gender, whether it is all-male or all-female, that opens up certain possibilities. You are able to throw the behavior of the men into a particular relief and be playful within a slightly larger-than-life way with it.

I basically lived like a guy for, certainly, the first decade of my career, and I just wanted to blend in.

Most drag queens dress up as super women, as an over exaggeration of the female form, because we like women, usually powerful women. I think that's why we are so over exaggerated; we are an amplification of the women who empowered us in our youth.

I liked him, that Jarvis Cocker. I like the fact he was androgynous, he could appeal to everybody. He wasn't just a lad pretending to be a thug.

Are you woman enough to be my man?

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.

My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I wasn't that. And I am kind of butchy, you know. That's just my thing.

I look a little bit like Barbie and talk a little bit like Ken. It's easier for me to sit in the middle of the boys' club than to be surrounded by people concerned about getting their hair and nails done.

My secret world had been invaded, and the attractive figure of Tiptree - he did strike several people as attractive - was revealed as nothing but an old lady in Virginia.

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

I didn't want to be perceived as a girly girl on stage.

I'm more androgynous, because men are supposed to be more spatial, women more literal - I'm a tomboy.

I dress for women and I undress for men.

We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us, but actually it's a phenomenon that is being produced all the time and reproduced all the time, so to say gender is performative is to say that nobody really is a gender from the start.

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.

We sort of expect to see men in women's clothes. It's part of our culture. The key thing is, it has to be done quite badly.

I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.