Trixie Mattel Quotes

Drag has been featured in popular culture for decades. Movies like 'Kinky Boots,' 'Tootsie,' 'The Birdcage' - even 'Mrs. Doubtfire' - have showcased men, some gay, some not, who dress and perform as women.

I love wearing 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 feel like I'm a drag queen.

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

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

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.'

Yes I had to dress up in drag but what fun. And now I feel like a real lady.

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.

I do 'sissy with a heart of gold' really well.

Being in drag for three months - I now have an idea of what women go through. At least maybe a little.

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.'

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 am never offended when I see the drag-queens dressed up like me.

Yes, I am transgendered but I also am a cross-dresser - I dress as a woman. It's not that I just want to be seen as a female in our society, I'm also a drag queen and a performer - there are many levels there.

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 wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

I'll have you know that as a young man, I spent an entire year as a woman in a world tour of 'As You Like It.' I played Celia.

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

I think drag is universal, no matter who does it. I mean, yeah, I am homosexual, but I think everybody likes to toy with their image. I love those guys. I love Milton Berle and Flip Wilson and all those people.

You get the wig on, you put the lipstick on, you get the big eyelashes on and that's the GC. It's like Paul O'Grady when he does Lily Savage... But when I'm not working, I don't wear a scrap of makeup.

Absolutely anyone can and must do drag.

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 the creativity and the social and political aspects of drag.

I'm an artist who happens to be in drag. And I think that's why my drag is a little different.