RuPaul Quotes

People can identify as however you want to. Right on. Go for it. But my strategy in this bigger game of life is to not identify as anything.

I’m ambitious. I work hard.

I loved ‘Carol.’ I thought it was a beautiful film.

We humans are still a very primitive culture, and it’s one of the traps we’ve fallen into over the course of our lives – to forget our history. That’s why George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ is so profound. It chronicles our short memory.

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.

Everyone gets drunk and makes out with the wrong guy sometimes.

It’s true in everything, not just in drag: To be a success, you have to understand the landscape. You have to know thyself, and you have to know your history so that you can draw from people who have figured out the equation you are faced with. It’s not rocket science.

It’s hard to get intimate with an audience.

La Flavour’s ‘Mandolay’ is a disco classic – I dare you to sit still while listening to it.

I try to do three active things a day because I have to fit into costumes that are very tight.

A regular old drag queen is usually your science teacher who’s actually wearing women’s panties underneath his slacks. A drag-queen superstar is someone who actually works in clubs and makes a living doing it more than one night a year, or even one night in six months.

I remember being 14 years old, making a pact with myself. I would never join into the matrix, never join into the status quo, and I would always fight it. It always felt like I was on an operating table and the anesthesia never worked.

Young people need to know there are ways for them to navigate this life.

I love drag, and I love people who gravitate toward it. Because the people who do drag are people who dance to the beat of a different drummer.

Anybody who can step out of the house with a pair of heels and some lipstick on their lips is my hero.

The only time you will ever see me in drag is when I am – What? Getting paid. It is my job.

Life is not to be taken seriously.