Benjamin Clementine Quotes

Clothes are like friends.

My relationship with shoes has always been linked to shoes, women, women in their shoes and performance.

Shoes have a meaning.

Theater for me at one point was a lifestyle, too.

I'm like a dude. Jordans are my favorite. I wear them all the time for shows. I can get girly-girly when I want to, but I can't perform in heels. I would bust my face open on stage, and we don't want that.

A shoe has so much more to offer than just to walk.

There are a lot of different facets to my personality that I don't use all the time in my house, or in everyday life, that I can experience and share when I'm on a stage.

What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

It's been hard to gain acceptance in England without the clown makeup because I wore the costume as part of my act for so long.

I like the fact that it's like The Ramones. You just have to change your name, and you're a Ramone. You just have to put the wig on, and you're Hedwig. Women have played it. Gay men, straight men, you know.

I see theatre everywhere, actually. We're all kind of performing a version of ourselves every morning by choosing the clothes and how we appear - but the stage is so emphasising that I really feel comfortable in it.

One of the reasons why I started creating my solo show is so that I have a place to put all of the accents that I do.

I think that clothes should be a shelter like a house or a rug. I think that there is that element of protection and a uniform can be just that.

I feel like my home is stage acting.

My parents thought, 'Oh, my God! What's wrong with him? He's possessed or something.' All of a sudden, I stood up and started saying my lines. From then on, that was it. I knew there was something special about the theater for me, something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.

I am working on music and telling my personal story and sharing my talent on stage.

I'm clown realness!

When I'm on stage I become a different beast.

We've just always felt like we had a product onstage that represented us.

With dancing, I think the reason it's worked for me, and I love it so much, is because I've trained my entire life. Once you train, you develop your own aesthetic and your confidence. So I think, as I grow, I'm learning how to be a singer. I'm training my voice and being on stage and singing and dancing.

A drag queen on time is not a drag queen.

I'm always myself. Always. The only difference is that I come off as mean out of drag.

I never had a gimmick. All I had was a pair of boots and a pair of tights.

You have to think about ways of improving the helmet all the time, balancing protection with being able to move and see the ball.

I love film because you have the last word. I never get that on stage because you've got to really believe; you've got to get the actors to trust you, and they have to believe in you, and then hopefully they will when you open the show.