Cross-Dressing Quotes

I'm certainly not inventing anything new with drag.

I think for many people, they think that being in drag means you want to be a girl. Being trans and doing drag is completely different.

I've been a fan of Eddie Izzard since school.

Clothes by a man who doesn't know women, never had one, and dreams of being one!

Englishmen do like to get in a dress, any excuse.

It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.

In 1969, I started wearing female attire full-time.

There are some amazing people around who can tell stories about drag from the '60s and in New York, like the amazing club kid drag. About drag from around the world. So people should be asking questions and listening to stories.

Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.

I always fought against vulgarity, double meaning dialogues and wearing la'dies' clothes.

I've played women since I was a kid and I've always enjoyed it.

I like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress up like my little brother. No makeup, and I looked like a boy.

One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress.

We've got 12-year-old boys dressing up as transvestites.

The truth is, I'd never seen a Cary Grant film. Since then I have watched his stuff and it's astounding, but I don't see any similarity between us. Except for the fact that I'm told he used to wear ladies' underwear, which is something I also do.

I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could make art.

Do I think J. Edgar Hoover was gay? Yes. Do I think he cross-dressed? No.

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

My husband wasn't put off by it - he thought it was hilarious to see me dressed as Dylan! He didn't particularly want to kiss me with stubble all over my face - it felt a bit odd! But I think he's used to it [the make-up process].

Everyone covering 'Stage Beauty' asks me: 'What's it like to wear a dress?'

Playing Mrs.Baskets was an interesting experience for me. It was the most rewarding thing I've done since Life With Louie. So you never know: If somebody asks you to put a wig and a dress on, you shouldn't just say "no" right away.You should at least see if there's money, fame, and satisfaction involved.

I have met a great celebrity, Madame Dudevant, known as George Sand... Her appearance is not to my liking. Indeed there is something about her which positively repels me... What an unattractive person La Sand is... Is she really a woman? I'm inclined to doubt it.

I take my hat off to the ladies. The amount of grooming-plucking and shaving and all the other things men never have to do. I went down and spent time with transvestites in London in the clubs and all that. Got an insight to that world, and it's a mad world, but they are very warm and very open people. It was a great experience.

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

In the 18th century, if women wanted to travel and they dressed as a man, people would not look twice. Your clothes said everything. Also there were masters and servants swapping clothes. You could be anything, your clothes told everything!