If you grow up in show business, you look beyond the looking glass. So, all of the surface facades get broken.

It's a neutralizing mantra to say to everybody, 'I come in peace.' I come in peace. That's why it's important.

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.

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

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

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

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

Once you clear out from your consciousness things that no longer matter, you're able to make room for other things.

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

If you've worked in a factory, and you haven't learned how to do something else, you're obsolete. That's just nature.

I've cried my eyes out and wanted to end it all before. I hope everybody's gone that far, because it makes life rich.

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

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

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

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

In my life, I've been able to really examine society in a way most people who aren't outsiders don't get a chance to do.

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

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.

For both men and women, an eyelash curler is a must. It gives your eye the appearance of being well-rested and wide open.

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

Unfortunately, in our culture, one person can write a letter to the network, and they shut something down. It's unfortunate.

It's very easy to look at the world and think this is all so cruel and so mean. It's important to not become bitter from it.

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

My love life has never been of interest to people. Of course I have a love life; I have a real life outside of show business.

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.

All things to do with drag are inherently therapeutic because the realization of your own insanity is the beginning of sanity.

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

My number one tip for all people, not just drag queens, is false eyelashes, which make every look go from daytime to glamazon!

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.

Usually, people who don't have a broad perspective see gay people as servants - as people who are there to make them look good.

The only person I look up to - and not just in show business but also in the world - is a little lady named Judge Judy! Honestly.

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

Drag is really about reminding people that you are more than you think you are - you are more than what it says on your passport.

This is an important thing: People who live in the mainstream and the status quo think that everyone else is there to serve them.

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've always been drawn to people who dance to the beat of a different drum; it didn't matter if they were in film or music or fashion.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

There's not another lip-synch song on the planet, in the history of lip-synching songs, that has been lip-synched more than 'I Will Survive.'

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.

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.

Throughout my life, I have always believed in love; I've always put my heart in love. But I've seen fear take people so often. It's very scary.

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.

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.

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.

Personally, I experience success when I enjoy what I'm doing. I love the creative process, even if the end result isn't embraced by anyone else.

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