Drag Queens Quotes

My favorite drag queens are Tammie Brown and Katya, so I like my drag queens a little left of sanity.

People sometimes think that drag queens are always really confident and fearless because we transform ourselves into these beautiful creatures, and they believe that it's how we live our everyday lives.

RuPaul's Drag Race' is my favorite TV show.

RuPaul's Drag Race' is my favorite show on television, and I've never missed an episode. With season 4, I watched it as if Sharon Needles wasn't me but was just another character.

Some people say that 'Drag Race' is about glory and immortalizing yourself in the Hall of Fame. For me, it's about shaking RuPaul down for her money.

There have always been drag queens everywhere.

Drag queens don't work well outside. We're designed for spotlights, not sunlight.

I first learned how to do hair from drag queens. I learned eyelashes are the key to life, because they make everyone look fabulous.

We are all illusionists and that's why we are attracted to drag queens. This whole world is an illusion. It's not real.

I grew up when one of America's greatest black playwrights, August Wilson, was writing about life in Pittsburgh, but I never saw myself in any of his straight-male plays. And then I see 'Angels,' which was so honest and painful, and it had this black drag queen in it, Belize, with a big heart. I finally had a character to relate to.

I'm a Bravoholic, and I love 'RuPaul's Drag Race.'

You can't get anything gayer than 'RuPaul's Drag Race!'

When I was on 'Drag Race,' it felt like a serious competition going on between drag queens... and then Katya and I were also there.

I think that drag makes anything better.

The inspiration of my drag is the history of drag, the long tradition of drag queens being at the forefront of queer activism. That informs my drag style, and in a sense, that is the direction we need to go in the future.

If the Cowardly Lion were on RuPaul’s Drag Race, so much of my childhood would be less nightmarish.

Shangela and I are both the type of queens who will taffy-pull 15 minutes of fame into something solid.

I feel like when you call us drag queens, it stereotypes us. It puts us as labels and I feel like we are performers.

Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want them to be, and the way some women still actually want to be. Drags are ambulatory archives of ideal moviestar womanhood. They perform a documentary service, usually consecrating their lives to keeping the glittering alternative alive and available for (not-too-close) inspection.

The audience of 'Drag Race' and the fans of drag queens are often very surprising.

Some of my favorite drag queens are women.

'RuPaul's Drag Race' is a show about love, art, passion, acceptance, and the quest for finding America's next drag superstar. No show on the telly box has more grit than these queens.

'Drag Race' has made a lot more people into fans of drag, and that's allowed local communities to grow and flourish, but it's up to individual queens to share the spotlight with their communities. I definitely want to be one of the people who does that.

I've seen some very beautiful drag queens.

Sometimes if you're dealing with straight interviewers they're a little more excited if you're in drag: 'Oooh! Aaaah! Eeeee!' But if you're just sitting there out of drag, they think you're just a bitter queen.