Anjelah Johnson Quotes

I look like an accountant. And no offense to accountants! There's some really cool accountants out there.

I kind of keep my personality in my pocket a lot. When I start to do stand-up, that's not my true personality either. It's the personality of a guy who hasn't been able to say what he wanted to say.

The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.

I love getting dressed up, but I want to be remembered for my singing.

I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you.

Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like.

Even on the stage, I've played a bit of a persona, and the persona I played was a much brasher, more arrogant, less aware, less educated version of me.

Maybe at some level, even at an early age, without ever being aware of it, I was reacting to something. To people judging me based on how I looked instead of what I could do.

I perform at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, where my race and gender are rarely pointed out.

Typically, I'm put in high heels and a tight top, which is not my personality at all.

Because I'm on my own on stage and wear bare feet and look like a pixie, people always think I'm little.

As a woman people judge you on your looks regardless of the fact you're just there to race.

It's fun to dress up and look good. And it's fun to try on clothes and wear a different jacket every night. It also helps you on stage to feel like you belong there.

I've gotten a lot of comments about how I look and I can't help but think, Is anyone listening to what I'm saying? If I were a guy, no one would be saying, 'Wow, look at those pants' or 'Look at those legs.'

Maybe you don't know who a person is just based on the way they dress. I know that's a really simple thing you're supposed to be taught really young, but sometimes you can forget.

There's a heart beneath the boobs and a brain beneath the wig.

I'm not real. I'm theatre.

I'm like the random guy who you would think I'm a computer freak and you would think that I'm a massive art collector, but I'm really not.

Drag threatens people because it exposes and mocks identity. Because most people believe that they are what it says they are on their driver's license. But the truth is we are all born naked, and the rest is drag.

As long as I am winning, people shouldn't care whether my skirt is six inches long or 6 feet long.

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.

The whole thing about working in front of the camera is to make people laugh when they're not supposed to.

I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.

There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him, "What was that, George, what were you doing?" And he said, "They were sleeping." You're always trying to catch them.

You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair," said Anne reproachfully. "People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.