Rupaul quotes

When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

I think in times of fear and hysteria in a culture, gender experimentation as it pertains to men has to go underground because it scares people too much and it's too much for people to take on. Especially when a culture is held hostage by fear and hysteria and fundamentalism.

If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?

The truth is - most things are probably gonna fail. But my failures bring me to the next thing. So in that regard, nothing's a failure, it's a continuation.

Some girls talk to the boys in the chat room, my girls talk to the boys in the backroom.

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.

Walking with your chest out and your head held high says you have earned the right to stomp and pummel this particular piece of real estate.

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

Excuses are for losers, and winning is for winners, like you!

When I think about my Glamazon, would that character get down if someone said her thighs were heavy? No, she knows what other people think is none of her damn business.

As a kid, I was searching for my tribe of other people who saw through the matrix. Even as a kid I could never buy into the status quo. I just thought it was a joke; I couldn't believe other people weren't laughing at it.

And If I fly or if I fall, at least I can say I gave it all.

I chose to devote the lion's share of my time to my personal growth and to my family. I reconnected with the part of me that I had left behind.

True wealth is having a healthy mind, body, and spirit. True wealth is having the knowledge to maneuver and navigate the mental obstacles that inhibit your ability to soar.

I change clothes at least three times a day. It's the only way I can justify all the shopping I do. Prada to the grocery store? Yes! Gucci to the dry cleaner's? Why not? Dolce & Gabbana to the corner deli? I insist!

SOmetimes life isn't fair, and straight people are straight up crazy.

We're born naked, and the rest is drag.

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.

It's all about knowing that everybody that you see, everybody that you sit across from is a different aspect of yourself. So once you can accept yourself on every level, that's when everything opens up, that's when the party really begins.

Some people are beyond help, just accept that.

When I was about 13, 14 - 13, I would carry a magic marker with me everywhere I went so I could write the word "Bowie" on everything that wasn't mine.

Our bodies are just temporary vessels for our souls, which will go on forever. You really are an extension of the power that created the whole universe, no matter what drags you have on.

But if you deem them worthy, people deserve a second chance.

American culture is one that is so easily in denial. We have such a strange dichotomy, so hypocritical. The truth can be blaring in neon letters but our culture will find a reason not to hear what the truth is.

The truth of who we are has nothing to do with religion or the type of car that we drive or the color of our skin. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. And the human experience part is very temporary. So, things like the bar, love, magic, dancing, and colors are there to remind us to not take all of this stuff so seriously.

Even when I was down, I treated myself as a star and eventually the world would catch up.

So many times, people are afraid to start something because of fear of failing. But it can be fabulous - because it leads you to the next thing.

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.

I'd like to go for people I admire - I always gravitate towards the people I idolized when I was a teenager: Cher, Diana Ross, and David Bowie.

Actually, it does start with you - if you want to change the world, change yourself.

Most women, when they ask me for beauty tips aren't really prepared for my answer, which is, there is no magic beauty wand that can transform you and make you beautiful. It takes practice and what you see on Rupaul's Drag Race is years and years of practice.

Style is a celebratory expression of your life force. You must approach it with a sense of joie de vivre.

The public wants a great product, but they also want more layers of value. So it's lifestyle, it's takeaway, it's entertainment. It's all of those things and social media facilitates a big chunk of that, because they want to touch and feel you, they want to talk to someone about it, they want to join a community of other people who dance to the beat of a different drummer.

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

No one wants a cherry pie that bites back.

With hair, heels, and attitude, honey, I am through the roof.

Haters gonna hate, but here are the only words you need for them. Sashay, away.

Look at me - a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.

A glamazon is someone who's taken a love of beauty and life and listen, depending on the weather or how my blood sugar at any time, I can be more outspoken than other times, but it's a conscious decision to live life with a fierce determination.

Own who you are and celebrate it.

To this day it cracks me up to think that my debut on national British television as a reporter ends with me turning a trick.

What makes a gay icon is someone who possesses both masculine and feminine qualities simultaneously.

Don't take life too seriously and have fun. Don't waste your time on things that your ego will try and convince you are important.

I love to laugh, I love color, I love texture, and I love creativity, so I was always inspired by people who incorporate those things in their work.

Sharon Needles. Did I meet you at the free clinic?

We as gay people get to choose our family and the people we're around. I am your family. We are a family here.

What other people think of me is not my business. What I do is what I do. How people see me doesn’t change what I decide to do.

Spirituality has nothing to do with church, and everything to do with hair.

Very little is off -limits, but draw the line at being unkind.

My music is a reflection of what I really love to listen to, pop, dance, mid tempo dance and ballads.

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

It's important to stay in this moment right here, the now. This moment is the most important moment of your life.

You're born naked, and the rest is drag! EVERYBODY is in drag. Whether you're a man or a woman. It just depends on how extreme you wanna go.

There's not a long career span because you can't really make money doing drag for very long the way the system was set up for so many years.

Kindness only goes so far, and then it's time to show your claws.

When you're face to face with someone less worthy, tell them.

Life is about using the whole box of crayons.

You want to know the truth about drugs? You can only go one or two ways. You can go up, or you can go down. That's it. After a certain point, though, no matter what you do, what you take, you don't go anywhere, and that's when you've got to sit down and face yourself.

I've dedicated my career to fighting the mundane. My hope is that my career will be a shining example to children everywhere that life is more meaningful when you are not afraid to see all colors of the rainbow.

Be yourself. Know your proportions. And have a good tailor.

We all came into this world naked. The rest is all drag.

Our ego never wants to die and it will do anything to prolong its life. But the truth is, we are both spirit and ego and you have to have a balance between the two. Your spirit never dies, but the ego is all about beginnings and ends.

I always felt like an outer-space alien. I was always breaking the fourth wall.

Negativity is basically laziness.

I love Superman. Because he represents the hero with 1,000 faces. And the potential that lies in every human on this planet.

Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!

I'm always talking about loving yourself and expressing yourself and learning how to love yourself. I'm still the same.

Love yourself. KNOW thyself. And be mindful of your thoughts.

You are not your body. You are actually an extension of the power that created the whole universe.

Ego loves identity. Drag mocks identity. Ego hates drag

You have to use what you have to get what you want.

Sacrifices have to be made if you want to make a dent in the world, and that's what I started out to do - to make a dent in pop culture.

When there are no words, let your eyes do the talking.

Be very careful of what you allow to infiltrate your consciousness and subconsciousness. When you watch too much television, you'll start to feel inferior from all the commercials hard selling the idea that you're not complete unless you buy their product. The ad agencies appeal to your fear of not being wanted or loved. It's the same with the local news. They get you to stay tuned with a constant stream of fear tactics. It's as if our culture is addicted to fear and the flat screen is our drug dealer. Don't allow that crap into your head!

You can call me he. You can call me she. You can call me Regis and Kathie Lee; I don't care! Just as long as you call me.

We are born nude and everything after that is drag.

My attitude toward friendship has remained the same. I will support and encourage you with all the love in my heart, but if it's not reciprocal, I gotta go. If your friends are bitter about your success to the extent that they act out, don't expect them to change. Move on.

If you read Animal Farm, you know that humans traditionally forget the reason we have revolutions in the first place.

You can't have a discussion about bullying unless you also have a discussion against our culture's obsession with masculinity.

The greatest truths in life are the ones your fellow queens are willing to tell you.

There's really no way to fast-track someone because the rate that their brain is able to interpret the information they're getting is on pace with life.

The overall commentary on what I'm doing is saying, 'Hey look! I get to create whatever persona I want to, and it's all up to me. And the truth is, we are all - basically the universe - pretending to be humans for a brief moment of time. With a little self-induced amnesia.

If you have goals and the stick-with-it-ness to make things happen, people will feel threatened by you, especially if your goals don’t include them. They believe that if you take a piece of pie, then that leaves less pie for them. Seeing you follow your dreams leaves them realizing that they’re not following theirs. In truth, there is unlimited pie for everyone!

Illusion starts between the ears. If the person doing illusion doesn't believe it, then the audience doesn't believe it. Seeing the picture in your head will allow the audience to see it in their heads.

The only thing you have to watch out for is other people who feel threatened by your party.

All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.

My motivation comes from a love of being creative. I'm in love with music and colour and laughter and dancing and all things that are beautiful.

It's important to make a great first impression, so make sure to hold on to your damn weave.

I'm motivated by the laughter, honestly. It's really not about the money or being more famous. I really love creativity.

I'm always game for everything. What people don't understand is that the networks are who you have to get to take a chance on you. I wanna do it all. The trick is convincing a network to do it with you.

The world we live in is made up of polar opposites, black/white, male/female, night/day, and a human being who possesses both masculine and feminine – vulnerability and strength – is intriguing to us, whether they be a singer or actor or dancer, intrigues us, because THAT Is who we really are.

I do not impersonate females! How many women do you know who wear seven inch heels, four foot wigs, and skintight dresses?

I'm a regular Joe...I just have the unique ability to accessorize.

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.

I can always sniff out when someone is being what they think I want them to be, which is the complete opposite. I really want a queen to be herself.

I feel like a mother-queen-vampire-Dracula because I want to make more girls so I can have more friends and more girls to play with, you know? For a long time, it was really just me. There were other girls in the niche underground, but not on a world level.

Whatever you proclaim as your identity here in the material realm is also your drag. You are not your religion. You are not your skin color. You are not your gender, your politics, your career, or your marital status. You are none of the superficial things that this world deems important. The real you is the energy force that created the entire universe!

It's quite simple: If someone says UR beautiful, believe them. If someone says UR ugly, don't believe them.

Don't take life too seriously.

Don't be afraid to use all the colors in the crayon box.

It's important to use a stage name so that your real name doesn't appear on public records.

When you see magazine articles and you go, 'Oh my God, that one looks so old or look how fat someone is' it has very little to do with the person in question and more to do with the person who's asking the question. People don't want to believe their own mortality.

The mantle of glamour has been taken from the women and given to the men. The women toil in their shadows, plain and ordinary-looking. So that transition has left a void. It is a void for drop-dead, impossible, over-the-top glamour. Supermodels fill that void. The only thing they have to do is work the runway, sweetie, and refuse to get out of bed for less than ten thousand dollars.

The main thing that motivates me is laughter, and colors, and music, and dancing! And I do all of the above every day.

Drag is like breaking the fourth wall in theater where we're letting you know straight up that this is an illusion. People are attracted to that because they know it's the truth of who they are also. No one is who they think they are. That's why people are attracted to drag.

Throw a little shade when you need to.

That is the key to navigating this life - don't take it too seriously. That's when the party begins.

My life is so much better, it's so much more enriched if I make the effort, if I actually celebrate with gladitude the fact that I get to be on this gorgeous planet.

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.

Loving yourself—it really takes a daily practice.

It's very easy for me to take on other people's energy, so my personal mantra is " Love yourself, love yourself, love yourself. "

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

Definition of lecture: An art of transmitting Information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of students without passing through the minds of either. Definition of conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present Definition of office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life. "What people say about me behind my back is none of my business."

When I was a kid in San Diego, I would read fashion magazines and Interview magazine, and all of that really inspired me to create a persona. So by the time I moved to New York, in the early '80s, I'd learned how to create a persona, and I knew what my persona would be.

Don't be jealous of my boogie.

my goal is to always come from a place of love ...but sometimes you just have to break it down for a motherfucker

I feel an obligation to myself to entertain myself and if other people get something out of it, I'm like, right on.

Drag queens always love a portmanteau of combining words and making something new, because this whole world is shilarious. And so you have to contain yourself with words. Shilarious is just something that is a really hooty kiki funny item.

It's been important to cultures throughout history with the court jester and the witch doctor and the shaman - all preach the same thing.

Negativity is basically laziness. It takes a lot of hard work to remain positive, but positivity always pays off.

What other people think of me is not my business. What I do is what I do. How people see me doesn't change what I decide to do. I don't choose projects so people don't see me as one thing or another. I choose projects that excite me. I think the problem is that people refuse to understand what drag is outside of their own belief system.

I love David Bowie and Cher and Diana Ross. I wanted to follow in their footsteps. So I set out to do that in a rock-'n'-roll band in Atlanta, Georgia. That led me to nightclubs and to the sort of Andy Warhol experience of creating a personality.

When someone wrongs you, walk away from them and don't ever look back.