Drag Queen Quotes

• It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

  Dolly Parton

  Girl, Fashion, Queens

  Twitter post from Aug 25, 2009

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• The world is your catwalk, so just remember this when you're out there.

  RuPaul

  World, Remember, Catwalk

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• I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

  John Lone

  Queens, Drag, Performers

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• I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

  Laura Kightlinger

  Queens, Dresses, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself.

  Taylor Dane

  Queens, Drag

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• Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment.

  Liv Tyler

  Girl, Mom, Stars

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• I'd love to do a show in Vegas with drag queens. The tackier the better.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Love, Queens, Vegas

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• It's a sort of piss-take on culture, because a drag queen is a clown - a parody of our society. It's a sarcastic spoof on culture, which allows us to laugh at ourselves - but in a way that is inclusive of everyone.

  RuPaul

  Sarcastic, Queens, Laughing

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• I quite love sequins; I think it's the drag queen in me.

  Sienna Miller

  Queens, Thinking, Drag

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• 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.

  Andy Warhol

  Queens, Women, People

  "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again".

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• Don't take life too seriously.

  RuPaul

  Life, Sarcastic, Funny Inspirational

  RuPaul (2010). “Workin' It!: RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• As gay people, we always think outside of the box. The irreverent is always important to a drag queen and anyone else who lives outside the box. And this is why drag's important: remember to not take life seriously. It's always important to see the laughter in the illusion that we pretend is real.

  RuPaul

  Queens, Laughter, Real

  "T Lo Interviews The One and Only RuPaul". tomandlorenzo.com. March 03, 2009.

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• I can't express how much admiration I have for women in general, who walk around in high heels, but, drag queens, oh my god.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Queens, High Heels, Admiration

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Ego loves identity. Drag mocks identity. Ego hates drag

  RuPaul

  Hate, Personality, Ego

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• I guess a drag queen's like an oil painting: You gotta stand back from it to get the full effect.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Queens, Humorous, Oil

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• Actors are basically drag queens. People will tell you they act because they want to heal mankind or, you know, explore the nature of the human psyche. Yes, maybe. But basically we just want to put on a frock and dance.

  Colin Firth

  Queens, People, Actors

  "Firth: 'All Actors Are Drag Queens'" by wenn.com, July 21, 2008.

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• I love drag queens and I love going to see them perform because those people have got so much character and bravery. Such balls! I love people with balls.

  Elton John

  Queens, Character, People

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2006.

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• I love drag queens and they love me.

  Tori Spelling

  Queens, Drag

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• Give a drag queen a fish and you feed her for a day; show her how to be fishy and you feed her for a lifetime.

  RuPaul

  Queens, Giving, Lifetime

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• If I hadn't been a woman, I'd have been a drag queen

  Dolly Parton

  Music, Queens, Drag

  "Ye Olde Papere: Dolly Parton's boobs have served her well". Interview with Sophie de Rakoff, www.papermag.com. September 1, 2011.

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• I think part of me would love to play a drag queen, just because it would be an excuse to wear loads of eye makeup.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Queens, Eye, Makeup

  "Potter' actor wants to play a drag queen". www.upi.com. September 2, 2008.

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• There are easier things in life than being a drag queen. But I ain't got no choice. Try as I may, I just can't walk in flats.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Queens, Gay, Things In Life

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• I feel like I have an inner drag queen. Or rather, I feel like I was a drag queen in a past life.

  Rumer Willis

  Queens, Past, Drag

  Source: www.elle.com

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

  Tabatha Coffey

  Queens, Keys, Hair

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• I am never offended when I see the drag-queens dressed up like me.

  Cher

  Queens, Drag, Like Me

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