RuPaul Quotes

I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.

No matter where you go, you are what you are playa.

The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique.

You're never really playing yourself. You're always acting. It's an illusion that you're really playing yourself. The only time I'm playing myself is when I'm at home!

You have to be someone.

I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?

I'm not a brand name, I'm a person.

The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.

I don't really consider myself a center.

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

I always say that you are who you are and you can't hide it.

A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.

I only know how to play one role: me.

What I do and who I am are two different things. And they always will be.

Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.

If guys step back and are just honest about what they think looks good on them, it’s really hard to lose. You can spot guys who take on personas that are not theirs.

I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.

You is what you am, a cow don't make ham.

I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me I believe in my dance-- And my destiny

If you become aware of a public self, you're in danger of becoming a very artificial person.

I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.

What makes a girl a girl? What makes a guy a guy? Do you have to be what they want you to be? Or do you stop and listen to that voice inside you? I know who I am. I'm Petra West. And I'm a girl. You want me to sleep somewhere else, fine. Whatever. But I'm not going to pretend to be somebody I'm not. I've done enough of that.

You know, what's interesting is, being your own self is kind of a blur.

Every act is an act of self definition.

I’ve always thought you are what you are and you shouldn’t pretend to be anyone else. But Oliver used to correct me and explain that you are whoever it is you’re pretending to be.