Rain Dove Quotes

I'm a director, but I gotta have the hair, the makeup and the heels. My mother would be appalled if I didn't dress up.

I dress like a boy most of the time because I like what's comfortable, so sometimes when I have to wear dresses and makeup, it's kind of comedic.

In the U.S., women smile more than men. In the U.K., there's no difference between men and women.

I'm big on facial expressions, and I'm big on mannerisms, which I find to be hilarious.

There are times when I consciously give the character something physical - a walk, the way he sits, how he talks, or his lack of physicality, which is like a physicality.

A friend of mine once wrote a silly article about all these metrosexuals like David Beckham wearing sarongs, and she described me as a 'heteropolitan.' I don't know what that means. I think it was a joke.

I always start out saying exactly what everybody looks like. I don't know why.

I have got one of those faces that change every day: you can dress me up, make me look vampy and then make me look 12 years old. But don't all women do this thing? We all take on these roles.

I dress like a boy most of the time because I like what's comfortable, so sometimes when I have to wear dresses and makeup, it's kind of comedic. I take lots of pictures on my cell phone: 'Look, I'm dressed like a girl! Surprise!'

I love observing both vocally and by sight. So I take on a lot of those elements of people around me.

Having done 'M. Butterfly,' I'm conscious of the choices women make with their clothes and makeup on screen.

I have no hips, and I feel like my body's like a teenage boy's. But I can have the hair long, put on makeup, wear a dress, and do the exact opposite as well.

I wouldn't look pretty as a woman.

I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.

I didn't start wearing makeup until I was in my early 20s, so I never realized that makeup 'wasn't for boys,' as many social norms say.

When I'm in drag, I don't always want to be spoken to, but I love being looked at. Nobody puts that much work into how they look to be ignored.

Having long hair has allowed me to enter orthodox or religiously conservative situations with slightly more ease.

All men in makeup are playing a part.

Breaking gender norms just comes instantly as soon as a boy is comfortable and confident enough to put on makeup.

Where I grew up, the one unmistakable sign of homosexuality was to betray some interest in your appearance.

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

I started out with makeup in 1963, 1964. And in 1965, I was coming out more, and I was still wearing makeup, but I was still going to jail just for wearing makeup.

I was always a tomboy as a kid. I always had boyfriends. I was just a regular girl growing up in the late '50s and early '60s, but I was never really attracted to what the girls were attracted to: makeup, my appearance, homemaking.

The whiskers sticking up from underneath his pancake makeup, and yet he was a beautiful lady.

Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.